This is the same Kanye that went to Trump Tower after the election. Nothing has changed. Today was a revelation of nothing.pic.twitter.com/EiqFXKQWXl
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I’m kinda surprised folks are tripping over Ye’s pro-Trump tweets. More than 1 in 8 black men voted for Trump. Ye is just one of them... he’s that dude in the barbershop we’ve known forever. https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/989227154993963009 …
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Kanye went. Steve Harvey went. Ray Lewis went. Jim Brown went. This isn’t new at all.pic.twitter.com/9FL1e4xJ0y
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Before Trump was elected,
@LeahRigueur and I wrote that it would be these black men - hypermasculine bootstrappers who are prosperity gospel evangelists - who support Trump. We’re watching it play out ... again.https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/10/trump-black-supporters/502502/ …Show this thread -
There is certainly more to this story - dissatisfaction w/ lack of responsiveness to black policy needs, evolution of political expression, rebelling against notions of a captured electorate and partisan norms, etc. But at the core, it’s just the 1 in 8 doing what they do.
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I think it's just ironic since he was the one that spewed a whole rant after Katrina about George w...who was a saint compared to Trump.
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I hear you, but this wasn’t a partisan rant. The same Ye that despised Bush can admire a billionaire celebrity. In the cult of personality, parishioners find odd ways of justifying their gospel.
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Same mindset that thinks this one is a preacher of the Gospel.pic.twitter.com/a1NtlM5hDW
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That %? Help me understand. That dude in the barbershop. I’m white & I can’t, to this day, get how so many people voted for him.
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Not the dude in the barbershop, as my Tweet implied. But, voted for Trump...
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