Tokenism & Temperature Checks: Thoughts on Kanye West

Ciara Todd
Nov 4 · 8 min read

(Writer’s note: I wanted to leave this alone but it crossed off all of my boxes as a Black-Christian-hip hop listening-and-saved-after-25 individual plus I do essayist work for a living. Some of what I was seeing in response to Kanye West and the release of Jesus Is King struck such a chord that I wanted to compile all of my thoughts into one space. This seems common sense to say but I am only one

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Ciara Todd

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Memoirist in spirit and in truth. Christian essayist when both the spirit and truth move me. email: crjtwrites[at]gmail.com

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