It’s been pretty wild to watch unravel, all this Trump stuff. It’s pretty much all happened as predicted and the Democrats have completely lost it. We’d be lucky to see a blue wave but I very much doubt it will be what they are hoping for. Which isn’t a defense of Republicans btw, they’re just as crazy as always. But that’s the overwhelming part, the left just gets more and more outraged and they think they’re outrage alone is enough but then over on the right they’re getting exactly what they voted for. Not everyone is thrilled but at least they know what to expect. Our country is like an old married couple with absolutely zero communication skills and it probably won’t end well.
In my honest opinion all this drama with Kanye West is just a distraction, and it’s a ridiculous display of ablism at that.
He and Kim Kardashian have spoken to the President about prison reform which is wonderful. It is something that we badly need and it’s wonderful that such high profile people are addressing it, but it’s sad that the media is putting so much effort into derailing that conversation. They just want to make money off the press releases and keep the status quo. And the abeilist part is what really makes me mad, they egg Kanye on. Call him racist names on TV and focus on his instabilities rather than the issues important to Americans, all while knowing that Kanye suffers from mental illness in the form of bipolar disorder.
I have listened to Kanye’s carrying on a bit recently and while I will admit he takes things too far I wish that people would listen a little bit. While his incredible levels of narcissism are undeniable I believe the media is grossly distorting what he said about slavery.
In fact, what he is talking about is Nietzsche’s master slave morals which says that master morality values pride and power, while slave morality values things like kindness, empathy, and sympathy. So basically this mentality keeps the status quo because the slaves are taught not to value qualities that could lift them up. And of course this isn’t talking about literal slavery, it’s more of an explanation of structural racism. Instead of hearing Kanye out though and engaging in an academic discussion with him, media pundits call him a “token negro” or say things like Kanye is what’s wrong with black people. Honestly just disgusting things have come off CNN since that White House press conference with Kanye, things that you’d expect from Fox.
And the disgusting things those media pundits have said aren’t even true! Kanye West is not the first person of color to call out those accepting charities and inadequate standards from the west as prolonging their own suffering. Thomas Sankara, who was a Burkinabé pro-people revolutionary, Marxist, pan-Africanist and President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987, did the very same thing and others have since too. Just last year in fact the president of Ghana, Akufo-Addo, spoke to French PM, Macron, about aid being a problem. A journalist posed the question, “what can France do for us (Ghana)?”
To this Akufo-Addo responded by saying,
“France will do whatever it needs to do for its own sake, and when those coincide with ours, ‘tant mieux’ [even better] as the French people say. But our main responsibility as leaders, as citizens, is what we need to do to grow our own countries.
We can no longer continue to make policy for ourselves — in our country, in our region, in our continent — on the basis of whatever support that the Western world or France or the European Union can give us,” he added. “It has not worked, and it will not work.”
I believe that because Kanye simply isn’t used to being questioned he doesn’t know how to defend his ideas and so the media is taking advantage of him. They are using his spectacle to distract Americans from what’s going on elsewhere.
Instead of letting ourselves be put against our fellow Americans we ought to be hearing each other out. We ought to be working together instead of using each other as a means. Name calling and finger pointing will get us no where, but if we listen it might be suprising how much more can be accomplished.
Dachshund Twinz 