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You are here: Home / Civil Rights / Racial Justice / This Week In Blackness / Kanye’s Next Target: Elitism

Kanye’s Next Target: Elitism

by Elon James White|  March 4, 20151:44 pm| 18 Comments

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Kanye West is at it again. Now that he has decided that racism is fading away, he’s on to his next attack: elitism. On BBC Radio 1 he explained:

“Class is the new way to discriminate against people, to hold people down, to hold people in their place based on where their kids go to school, how much money they make, what they drive, where they live and what type of clothes they have and how much they have in their account for retirement,” he said at the time.

While he’s not wrong, let’s not write off racism so fast. After all, have you read the DOJ report on police discriminatory racial practices?

Team Blackness also discussed Duke’s sexual discrimination allegations, Ben Carson’s run for the presidency, and Ann Coulter’s presidential turn in Sharknado 3.

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  1. 1.

    Violet

    March 4, 2015 at 1:57 pm

    All that from a guy married to a Kardashian? Okay…

  2. 2.

    The Other Bob

    March 4, 2015 at 2:16 pm

    @Violet:

    This.

  3. 3.

    Bart

    March 4, 2015 at 2:21 pm

    Is it really so hard to a) check that you haven’t double-posted AGAIN and b) delete one of the two posts?

  4. 4.

    The Moar You Know

    March 4, 2015 at 2:24 pm

    Kanye? That guy is stone-cold stupid-ass ignorant. His opinion on anything is worth less than nothing.

    And, having met him, he’s a full-throttle asshole. Might have had something to do with me being a foot taller than him, though. some short guys don’t deal with that well.

  5. 5.

    Germy Shoemangler

    March 4, 2015 at 2:26 pm

    I don’t know him. He seems to have impulse-control issues. But I like his collaboration with Paul McCartney: “Only One” is a beautiful song they co-wrote.

    I also like the one Kayne and McCartney did with Rihanna

  6. 6.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    March 4, 2015 at 2:29 pm

    I’ll never forgive black people for Kanye.

  7. 7.

    Germy Shoemangler

    March 4, 2015 at 2:32 pm

    @Just Some Fuckhead: I’ll never forgive white people for Sean Hannity.

  8. 8.

    Betty Cracker

    March 4, 2015 at 2:32 pm

    @The Moar You Know: I’ve often wondered if the petulant asshole persona is an act for marketing purposes. Your experience suggests that it’s not.

  9. 9.

    Germy Shoemangler

    March 4, 2015 at 2:33 pm

    @The Moar You Know: I remember the scene in “A Hard Day’s Night” – “Stop being taller than me.”

  10. 10.

    someguy

    March 4, 2015 at 2:34 pm

    Kanye? Call me when he takes down mediocre quality yet inexplicably popular modern hip hop.

  11. 11.

    sharl

    March 4, 2015 at 2:59 pm

    Reposted from comment in previous post (excerpt is from page 6 of the cited report)…

    Via AdamSerwer’s twitter:

    How “routine misconduct” by Ferguson police can ruin someone’s life.

    here’s just one adorable story from the DoJ report (pdf, 106pp) on practices of the Ferguson PD:

    Even relatively routine misconduct by Ferguson police officers can have significant consequences for the people whose rights are violated. For example, in the summer of 2012, a 32-year-old African-American man sat in his car cooling off after playing basketball in a Ferguson public park. An officer pulled up behind the man’s car, blocking him in, and demanded the man’s Social Security number and identification. Without any cause, the officer accused the man of being a pedophile, referring to the presence of children in the park, and ordered the man out of his car for a pat-down, although the officer had no reason to believe the man was armed. The officer also asked to search the man’s car. The man objected, citing his constitutional rights. In response, the officer arrested the man, reportedly at gunpoint, charging him with eight violations of Ferguson’s municipal code. One charge, Making a False Declaration, was for initially providing the short form of his first name (e.g., “Mike” instead of “Michael”), and an address which, although legitimate, was different from the one on his driver’s license. Another charge was for not wearing a seat belt, even though he was seated in a parked car. The officer also charged the man both with having an expired operator’s license, and with having no operator’s license in his possession. The man told us that, because of these charges, he lost his job as a contractor with the federal government that he had held for years.

  12. 12.

    burnspbesq

    March 4, 2015 at 3:28 pm

    Sexual discrimination allegations?

    Sorry, you have no fucking clue what you’re talking about.

    The “allegations,” such as they are, are that one male student (who happened to be a member of the men’s basketball program at the time) sexually assaulted two female students. Those statements were made at a function that is expressly exempted from duty-to-report laws. The two young women have never made any formal complaint either to the Duke Office of Student Conduct or the Durham Police.

    Not even the Chronicle’s badly-sourced hatchet job alleges any sort of institutional sexual discrimination.

    Federal educational privacy laws prohibit all University officials from discussing the specifics of any particular case.

    Short version: you are making shit up.

  13. 13.

    Keith

    March 4, 2015 at 3:32 pm

    Class is the new way to hold people down?

    Wouldn’t it be far more insightful to say that Class is the perennial path to hold one group of people in lower standing than another?

  14. 14.

    elm

    March 4, 2015 at 3:53 pm

    @Keith: Exactly this. In the U.S., class and race are also deeply intertwined, with people of color disproportionately live in poverty and the top 1% is disproportionately “white”.

  15. 15.

    Mark

    March 4, 2015 at 4:09 pm

    It’s modestly ironic that he made this profound statement on the BBS, given that these insights were pretty thoroughly articulated in English colonies during the 18th Centiry.

  16. 16.

    Uncle Ebeneezer

    March 4, 2015 at 4:24 pm

    Elon, your rape-culture voice is great for the uptight Limbaugh style but needs more younger, casual-Bro arrogance. [Damnit, as I’m typing/listening, Aaron just nailed it with that Michelle Rodriguez interviewer.] Anyways, Google “Amazing Atheist Feminism” if you need more material for helping your voice achieve maximum douch-i-tude.

  17. 17.

    Richard

    March 4, 2015 at 5:53 pm

    Just because he noticed it for the first time doesn’t make it the new way.

  18. 18.

    SA

    March 5, 2015 at 9:03 am

    1. Can the DofJ follow up this report with prosecutions of ferguson officers for civil rights violations ?
    2. So much for the general defense (ie lie) that police must act aggressively in order to protect themselves from all the weapons floating around in ‘certain neighborhoods’. This dept didn’t even bother to falsify reports of weapons in these cases. The confidence of Jim Crow lives on.
    3. Same for the report on Attica in the NYT last week. Any black prisoner in the vicinity of supposed insolence to a guard can be beaten nearly to death and thrown aside. Sure, they concocted a cover story about one imaginary razor blade up against the >six armed prison guards. But again this case (and the similar abuses against almost every prisoner there) puts the lie to claims that police aggression against AAs is needed to protect police lives.
    4. My brother has, when his mental illness flares, acted weird on the street. Talked hurriedly to people he doesn’t know. Would panic if someone grabbed him and threw him down. His breakdowns and terrors have given him a rough life. But he’s white; and having a home and some medical care has kept him mostly off the street. These privileges and luck have kept him safe from the police so far. At times, 30-40 years ago, the police helped him out, took him to safety, perhaps saved his life a few times. These days I think he and almost all of us are at risk.

    The people of color who are testifying to prosecutors and reporters about police and prison abuse have the courage to put others’ lives above their own safety.

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