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For those in the music and entertainment industry today, it is a choice. Most of them are slaves to MK Ultra and Illuminati control. That is probably what he's inferring.
Obama was a slave, his every decision was made for him and he had zero input on what he did.
Subservience is a mindset, and many of the peddlers of faux "liberalism" and "progressivism" peddle it at this site constantly.
The organized anti-slavery movement began almost simultaneously with the Enlightenment itself, but began to gain ground more rapidly with the first stirrings of the Industrial Revolution. Slavery was in retreat everywhere on the globe by 1800, but the "peculiar institution'' was artificially prolonged by the opening of new lands (in Brazil as well as the American South) which temporarily and artificially gave an economic advantage to the use of slave labor. Discounting small pockets in Africa, the last formal sanctions of slavery were in the sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf -- anther authoritarian environment.
So the question we have to ask ourselves is whether the accelerated abolition of slavery in America brought on by zealous abolitionism was worth the cost of the Civil War.
Slavery would have ended with or without the Civil War, but may have taken a decade or more for the final death throws. Brazil ended it 20 years later without a civil war. The Industrial Revolution would have killed it no matter what.
I always wondered if it had died on its own, would we have had an additional 100 years of Jim Crow laws and madness? The KKK probably wouldn’t have existed, and the lynchings probably wouldn’t have existed. To me, the 100 years after slavery was abolished was America’s greatest sin.
It was a very inelegant way of saying whatever he was trying to say.
True...but Maxine Waters certainly understood Mr. West’s meaning...with a crystal clarity that obviously frightened her to her corrupt, rotten core.
Mad Maxine so clearly understood Kanye West’s meaning that she then appeared to propose that he undergo some sort of re-education regimen.
“Kanye West is a very creative young man who has presented some of the most revolutionary material in the African-American community," Waters told Politico at the event. "But we also think that sometimes Kanye West talks out of turn and perhaps sometimes he needs some assistance in helping him to formulate some of his thoughts.â€
If Black people had had standing disciplined military regiments to repel slavers from the hypothetical African cities they should have had, then they wouldn't have been slaves.
Very rarely did foreign navies arrive to take slaves. Single ship or small fleet slavers either traded for slaves, from Africans themselves, or grabbed whatever people were too sociopolitically weak to effectively cooperate and defend themselves.
Although he might not have thought it through this far, Kanye's position essentially boils down to examining why Africans lacked the culture that would have enabled them to mount a military (or political) defense.
This is an extremely important concept for every tribe, even in the present day. Which is why Kanye feels that his quote is poignant. Examining historical slavery really isn't the point, but its useful in some respects. The point is to identify slave and non-slave culture, which are the same cultures today as they were then.
Being able to defend oneself from slavery is indicative of a non-slave culture. Not being able to do so, it is implied, is indicative of a slave culture. This cultural dichotomy still exists today when various groups are contrasted. The only thing that has changed form is the slavery itself.
Slavers (foreign political powers) will always want you to adopt slave culture. Your duty is to reject slave culture, or that which leads to sociopolitical dysfunction and thus an inability to internally cooperate to a politically meaningful level.
That type of cooperation absolutely begins with a strong nuclear family. Everything grows from there, politically speaking. Without it, no political power begins to grow in any meaningful sense. This is also something that Kanye may not have yet discovered. He merely seems to sense of overall game.
The above is so dumb. Africa is a continent, not a country. There is no one African culture but various African cultures with over 1,500 languages spoken. Over 45 different ethnicities weee taken. Should one random ethnic group in China be expected to cooperate with one random ethnic group in Thailand because both groups are located in Asia, despite not even speaking the same language?
And there were in fact cities and kingdoms in Africa. Read a book.
It is the mindset. We are all slaves for a dollar. We go to work and serve others as a slave. So it is mindset.
Slavery was looked at differently centuries ago. A poor Jewish person would sell themselves as a slave for 7 years . They had to , to survive and eat.
Just think in reality. A black man is brought from Africa. A man buys him to do chores on his farm. He feeds him and puts a roof over his head. The man treats the slave with respect and cares about him. Another buys a slave and treats him badly.
We have that in the workplace today.A woman gets a job in the workplace for a dollar . Then we have men attacking women sexually in the workplace. What is the difference? It depends how one is treated.
Kanye has always not been right all the way in the head. When his mom died he got worse and since hooking up with the Kardashian crew he's gotten even worse than he was before.
I feel bad for him because he will lose fans and followers over this sort of thing if he continues. Most of my young family members are fans of his and they've all been on social media talking about how they are going to have to leave him alone. Even my husband who is from Chicago said something about it and he doesn't keep up with social media and media in general. He loved Kanye when he first came out but he was sighing about him yesterday lol saying how he was going to have to leave him alone and talking about how he needs to go back to his real, biological family in Chicago to get some guidance.
The above is so dumb. Africa is a continent, not a country. There is no one African culture but various African cultures with over 1,500 languages spoken. Over 45 different ethnicities weee taken. Should one random ethnic group in China be expected to cooperate with one random ethnic group in Thailand because both groups are located in Asia, despite not even speaking the same language?
And there were in fact cities and kingdoms in Africa. Read a book.
That poster and Kanye are cut from the same piece of fabric lol.
I think it is hilarious that people like to act like black Americans and this narrow view of "Africans" they have are the same because of being "black." There are all sorts of Africans.
Thinking that all of them should have gotten together and fought people because of their skin color is a stupid idea. Europe fought itself for thousands of years and still is in many ways.
Various African tribes actually willingly sold other African tribes to Europeans as a business venture. This is the main reason why I don't consider myself an "African" American. Also a reason is that I am not culturally African. However, if not for those tribes, my own African ancestors wouldn't have been sold into slavery.
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