he sold t-shirts with confederate flag and indigenous head dress imageryhttps://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/29/kanye-west-confederate-flag-shirt-explained-_n_4173200.html …
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he said that after breaking up with amber rose he needed to 30 showershttps://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/kanye-west-slams-amber-rose-had-to-take-30-showers-after-they-dated-2015202/ …
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usually i don't give a fuck what Kanye does but people acting this behavior is somehow left field? google's search engine has been improved for far too long for folks to be acting this brand new
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and what's *really* interesting is that his misogynoir, his vitriolic disdain for black women wasn't enough to raise an eyebrow instead folks just kept bumping "golddigger" & chalked it up to "quality branding"
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instead people picked up where scheherazade ali left off penning screeds about why their hatred of black women was justified because "the conscious one" gave the greenlight to do so
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and now folks wanna act surprised because he's playing patty cake with Trump? you're not surprised you feel duped is what it is
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you attributed more depth and meaning to a person's music than was actually there and meanwhile utilized such haphazard logic to justify his antics UNTIL it got to a point where even the strawmen you relied on started running in the opposite direction
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if proximity to Trump, rhetorical or actual, is gonna be the boilerplate for collective outrage and subsequent disposal prepare for a lot more of your faves to get knocked the fuck down
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and as you're standing among the ruins of your knocked down dominos wondering who do you look to for guidance actually come up with a criterion for "conscious/awareness" in mainstream black representation that doesn't rely on HEAVY, UNAPOLOGETIC, HATRED of black women
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