Kanye West Is A White Supremacist
and it’s time to let him go.
For far too long many of y’all have dragged people suffering from/living with/flourishing in spite of mental health issues into Kanye’s narcissism and it needs to stop. Is it possible that Kanye suffers from a mental illness? Yes. Does that mean he has to position himself alongside white supremacy as a result of it? Hell no. That is his choice.
Kanye fans have long attached some level of “genius” to him. Mistaking his passionate way of sharing his opinions (and frustration with not getting as much praise or adoration as he thinks he deserves) for him being highly intelligent. But often times, Kanye ends up with his foot in his mouth as he lets his emotions rule his mind and says things with no facts to build his arguments on (which are usually arguments for the glorification of whatever he feels he’s good at and should be given access to). For example, during his entire “rage against the machine” rants regarding the fashion industry he completely ignored the work of Black fashion pioneers like Ozwald Boateng or Tracy Reese or Karl Kani — -who to this day owns one of the largest denim manufacturing warehouses in the country — -relegating them to “urban” and “not Ralph doe” when what he meant was “not white”, and in a telling self admission, not as good as white fashion designers/fashion houses. And this was all in the name of…
