Kanye West is at it again, and this time he has a GOP friend named Steve to help him sort out just how much Republicans have helped black people over the years. These thoughts he tweeted are no longer findable since he hurried up and deleted them after he got schooled by layman historians like John Legend, and Charlemagne tha God. But, don't worry, Kanye can't get rid of all of the
I'm guessing that we should probably be looking for a Kanye + Morrissey tour sometime soon:
Kanye: When you hear about slavery for 400 years — for 400 years? That sounds like a choice.
He then took to Twitter to clarify that he totally meant it, but he didn't mean it like that, instead, he meant it in an ill-defined, you know, way that his critics just don't understand. Besides, it was just a new idea and he's just being attacked for new idea having. (Pro-tip: happy slaves who didn't want to leave isn't a "new idea".)
LBJ may have been racist (he was a white '50s Texan after all), but I think he believed that racism should not be institutionalized. "They're inferior, but they should still have equal rights" seems to fit the picture pretty well. Mintie may be right about the sliding scale.
It would take 28+ class days to get through it, if you hoped to have any discussion. YouTube has it in 1-hr chunks, which makes for decent homework assignments.
Il Douche, and the GOP in general, target their bullshit to the ignorant and/or stupid among us. Kanye would appear to be ignorant at best, and quite possibly stupid as well.
As of July/August, 1864 Abe wrote to himself that the 2nd term was all hopeless "...the bottom has fallen out."Then came Mobile, Ala. and, of course Atanta (September).First "October surprise" turnaround otherwise we coud have had a much different 13th Amendment in 1865.No inevitability to a second Lincoln term at all.
I'm a private citizen and this is an open internet board - I have no power to deny you any of your 'rights' whatsoever, even if I wanted to which I don't. I can, however, deny you a conversation with me, but that's a privilege, not a right. Since you brought up points, I'd say you deserve a C in communication, and a D in legal philosophy. And even that is probably grading on a curve.
Interesting. Also it’s important to remember that people today treat the N-word, and I’m totally in favour of this, like it’s the most horrendous piece of almost scatological disgustingness. Something unsayable. That is totally new. In the 60s 70s 80s and 90s if you wanted to say that somebody said that word you just said it. All the civil rights activists, all the anti-racists. You might’ve said it in a particular way. Quietly or making a face. But the idea it was beyond the pale to ever say, didn’t exist.
So what that says about Johnson using it? I don’t know. This is more of a "You young people today…“ comment. 😁
I don't think that was so sekret. He was famous for making the lives of people around him very uncomfortable. I think what it really came down to was he was a racist, but, in a weird way, an equal-opportunity racist.
Ironic that we might just owe it all to Jefferson Davis, with his replacement of Joe Johnston with John Bell Hood in the western theater. Strange place, history.
He was dumb before the Kardashians in my humble opinion.
His hatred of poverty must have been more important to him than his racism.
I'm guessing that we should probably be looking for a Kanye + Morrissey tour sometime soon:
Kanye: When you hear about slavery for 400 years — for 400 years? That sounds like a choice.
He then took to Twitter to clarify that he totally meant it, but he didn't mean it like that, instead, he meant it in an ill-defined, you know, way that his critics just don't understand. Besides, it was just a new idea and he's just being attacked for new idea having. (Pro-tip: happy slaves who didn't want to leave isn't a "new idea".)
LBJ may have been racist (he was a white '50s Texan after all), but I think he believed that racism should not be institutionalized. "They're inferior, but they should still have equal rights" seems to fit the picture pretty well. Mintie may be right about the sliding scale.
It would take 28+ class days to get through it, if you hoped to have any discussion. YouTube has it in 1-hr chunks, which makes for decent homework assignments.
Il Douche, and the GOP in general, target their bullshit to the ignorant and/or stupid among us. Kanye would appear to be ignorant at best, and quite possibly stupid as well.
As of July/August, 1864 Abe wrote to himself that the 2nd term was all hopeless "...the bottom has fallen out."Then came Mobile, Ala. and, of course Atanta (September).First "October surprise" turnaround otherwise we coud have had a much different 13th Amendment in 1865.No inevitability to a second Lincoln term at all.
I'm a private citizen and this is an open internet board - I have no power to deny you any of your 'rights' whatsoever, even if I wanted to which I don't. I can, however, deny you a conversation with me, but that's a privilege, not a right. Since you brought up points, I'd say you deserve a C in communication, and a D in legal philosophy. And even that is probably grading on a curve.
Interesting. Also it’s important to remember that people today treat the N-word, and I’m totally in favour of this, like it’s the most horrendous piece of almost scatological disgustingness. Something unsayable. That is totally new. In the 60s 70s 80s and 90s if you wanted to say that somebody said that word you just said it. All the civil rights activists, all the anti-racists. You might’ve said it in a particular way. Quietly or making a face. But the idea it was beyond the pale to ever say, didn’t exist.
So what that says about Johnson using it? I don’t know. This is more of a "You young people today…“ comment. 😁
The music in it is incredible. 😌
Minority opinions are always welcome on Wonkette.
You're in the minority here, for sure. Thank God.
I don't think that was so sekret. He was famous for making the lives of people around him very uncomfortable. I think what it really came down to was he was a racist, but, in a weird way, an equal-opportunity racist.
If the reference was on my part, it was entirely inadvertent I assure you.
Or even worse, Kardashians all the way down. Talk about bone-chilling cosmological implications . . .
Ironic that we might just owe it all to Jefferson Davis, with his replacement of Joe Johnston with John Bell Hood in the western theater. Strange place, history.