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Michael Eric Dyson: Half Blast 5:57, Full Blast 9:05 -- White Supremacy By Ventriloquism
My favorite part of Dyson's analysis is at 10:40, when Dyson answers:
I miss the old Kanye that wrote about crack music;
I miss the old Kanye who agreed with Professor Muhammad at Harvard, who writes about the condemnation of blackness;
I miss the old Kanye who understood that we are dealing with serious insidious forces that undermine us,
The Kanye who joined Jay Z to talk about black excellence and the quest of black excellence and how it's being roadblocked;
I miss the Kanye who loved Tupac, and who said just the other day, "I got lynched by some crooked cops, and to this day those same cops on the beat gettin' major pay, when I get my check they takin' tax out, we payin the cops to knock ' the blacks out".
I miss that Kanye who brings high intelligence.... there are ways in which hip hop can serve as a useful forum to articulate valuable ideas that people of color find resonant in the application to our situation.
Right now, this Kanye is a Kanye who is Kanye Mess, not Kanye West, not Kanye at his best and that's the real tragedy for my dear friend and great artist.
I miss the old Kanye who agreed with Professor Muhammad at Harvard, who writes about the condemnation of blackness;
I miss the old Kanye who understood that we are dealing with serious insidious forces that undermine us,
The Kanye who joined Jay Z to talk about black excellence and the quest of black excellence and how it's being roadblocked;
I miss the Kanye who loved Tupac, and who said just the other day, "I got lynched by some crooked cops, and to this day those same cops on the beat gettin' major pay, when I get my check they takin' tax out, we payin the cops to knock ' the blacks out".
I miss that Kanye who brings high intelligence.... there are ways in which hip hop can serve as a useful forum to articulate valuable ideas that people of color find resonant in the application to our situation.
Right now, this Kanye is a Kanye who is Kanye Mess, not Kanye West, not Kanye at his best and that's the real tragedy for my dear friend and great artist.
