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The Coates piece is fantastic

barefooted — Mon, 07 May 2018 21:57:53 +0000

In reply to St. Felix is one smart cookie

The Coates piece is fantastic, and so much bigger than Kanye West.

St. Felix is one smart cookie

artappraiser — Mon, 07 May 2018 21:04:26 +0000

In reply to The Roots of Kanye West’s Vacant, Galling Love of Donald Trump

St. Felix is one smart cookie and savvy writer, but now a real genius is chiming in:

I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye

Kanye West wants freedom—white freedom.

By TA-NEHISI COATES @ The Atlantic.com, May 7

Edit to add Vox.com summary for those who can't/won't do the full Ta-Nehisi:

Ta-Nehisi Coates: Kanye West wants the “freedom to be proud and ignorant”

The Atlantic writer says West is distancing himself from blackness — and the community that fueled his rise.

May 7, 2018, 3:20pm EDT

Kanye doesn’t read books so

rmrd0000 — Wed, 02 May 2018 16:25:52 +0000

In reply to Besides the Kanye factor,

Kanye doesn’t read books so he doesn’t realize that the radical “new” self reliance program is the same old platform promoted by Black Republicans for decades. Zora Neale Hurston was an advocate of this philosophy. Hurston thought that the Brown v Board decision was an admission that blacks could not complete. She felt that accepting white help was a failure. The truth is that blacks were canaries in the coal mine. Black schools were underfunded. Whites fled to the suburbs to avoid blacks. In doing so, the tax base that supported urban schools decreased. Legislatures spread the underfunding of black schools to majority white schools. They also let wages for teachers stagnate. Now society is coming to grips with the economic stress faced by public schools. Teachers have to pay out of their own pockets for student supplies. So-called self-reliance looks good on paper, but fails to educate a significant number of students.

The article points out one tactic that has been used by Conservatives for decades. Conservatives find one black who agrees with their nonsense and label any opposition to that black person as suppression of free thought. This tactic, in essence, says that the majority of blacks are stupid because they do not agree with the Conservative position. We are supposed to ignore that California improved after raising taxes and Kansas is crashing under Republican tax cuts. Republicans love the “free-thinking” black.

Besides the Kanye factor,

artappraiser — Wed, 02 May 2018 15:56:00 +0000

In reply to The Roots of Kanye West’s Vacant, Galling Love of Donald Trump

Besides the Kanye factor, found this piece helpful in describing some of the "new" right replacing the "old" like Bannon/Breitbart and Red State

“HE’S NEVER BEEN HAPPIER”: INSIDE THE RED-PILLING OF KANYE WEST

The new right’s message of radical self-reliance and rejection of identity politics could be appealing to a certain brand of self-made superstar—and nobody has had their eyes opened as wide as Kanye West. “It’s not, ‘Oh, Kanye is [saying] socialism sucks. Kanye is realizing Democrats are the real racists,’” explains one prominent MAGA commentator. “He’s trying to be himself.”

by TINA NGUYEN @The Hive @ VanityFair.com, May 1

Kanye does not read books. He

rmrd0000 — Wed, 02 May 2018 00:12:05 +0000

In reply to for those interested who aren

Kanye does not read books. He lacks common sense. Republicans love him

Diamond and Silk initially spoke out about police brutality. Now they are pro-Trump because it is more profitable. Republicans love them.

Black Republicans have to be fuming about the image of black Trump supporters being promoted by the Republican Party. Unfortunately, black Republicans cannot break free from their chains. They will remain silent. When media suggested that Vernon Jordan might lie to cover for Bill Clinton, Obama and Clinton when toe to toe. After Obama won, the party came back together. A battle with race as a focus cannot happen on the GOP side, because race does not exist for them.

Many degrees of ick at play

barefooted — Tue, 01 May 2018 23:55:01 +0000

In reply to Well, the New Yorker piece

Many degrees of ick at play here, but I'm not sure Davidson is a cut above anything. If the allegations are true, he not only used and lied to the women to line his pocket but pretended to defend them. Not sure Cohen ever tried to pretend he was the good guy ...

for those interested who aren

artappraiser — Tue, 01 May 2018 23:36:00 +0000

In reply to Mayday @ TMZ Live: Deep

for those interested but who aren't interested enough to watch here's a summary @ Buzz Feed:

Kanye Just Said Slavery Was A Choice. This TMZ Staffer Took Him To Task In An Epic Way.

"I am unbelievably hurt by the fact that you have morphed into something, to me, that's not real," said TMZ's Van Lathan after Kanye said slavery was a choice.

By Micael Blackmon, Buzz Feed Reporter, May 1, 2018, at 6:12 p.m

Yes, I realize it could all be kafaybe, but then that's news in itself. And would be worse: trolling for profit. Either way, not a genuis. Stoners ala Cheech and Chong had "deeper" thoughts. Not even genius acting.

Well, the New Yorker piece

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 01 May 2018 23:06:15 +0000

In reply to yes, I learned all about TMZ

Well, the New Yorker piece almost looks admirable - like the people gushing over Levin as their hero. Don't think anyone would call Davidson their hero, and he's a cut above Goodfella Cohen.

yes, I learned all about TMZ

artappraiser — Tue, 01 May 2018 22:18:57 +0000

In reply to Reminder: TMZ was caught

yes, I learned all about TMZ's game back in Feb. 2016 thanks to The New Yorker. (Highly recommended piece if you really want to understand the dirty entertainment p.r. game)

But this is a current live interview with the horse's mouth himself. And if he's a genius he should know how to handle that well, including selective editing.Instead, he looks real ascared at the end for sharing his deep thoughts...finally thinking deeply: maybe I'm not such a genius...something like that...

Reminder: TMZ was caught

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 01 May 2018 21:17:20 +0000

In reply to Mayday @ TMZ Live: Deep

Reminder: TMZ was caught linking Hulk Hogan's extortionist to Stormy/McDougal's lawyer Davidson. The amount of playing both sides against the middle is simply incredible, and if you move these same techniques outside of Hollywood, you start to understand how Trump survived so many lawsuits and other disasters. It's all rigged, indeed. And yes, it greatly applies to the most significant MeToo cases. The odds of a woman winning are greatly trimmed down.