Of the torrent of comments Kanye “Ye” West received in the days after he and Candace Owens sported “White Lives Matter” shirts to his Paris fashion show, the one that gave him the warmest chuckle came from his father, a former Black Panther. “Just a black man stating the obvious,” he told Tucker Carlson, quoting his dad.
Most of us got it.
“Black Lives Matter” has been used to indoctrinate children, scatter anti-racist eggshells around every workplace, and threaten people’s jobs, livelihoods, and their lives. Under the banner of Black Lives Matter, “protesters” have wrecked restaurants, businesses, government buildings, public monuments, and homes. It’s given race hustlers a license to ruin sports, ruin entertainment, ruin business, ruin commercials, ruin the military, ruin law enforcement, and ruin race relations. Black Lives Matter has been emblazoned on T-Shirts and all sorts of paraphernalia. It’s been painted on streets, painted on pro football fields and basketball courts. It’s been used to rewrite history, topple statues, rename schools and pro sports teams; and its flag has been flown at stores, in classrooms, over government buildings, even over embassies around the globe.
Wearing a shirt that reads “White Lives Matter” made the obvious statement that it’s all been a bit much. It was long overdue, but not nearly enough to shift things back into balance.
Yet, after all we now know about the corruption of the Black Lives Matter organization, and the movement’s exaggerated grievances (even Sharon Osborne asked for her $900,000 back), the celebrity class inside the squeaky cancel culture machinery called what West did “offensive,” “dangerous,” “pure violence,” and “indefensible behavior.”
Some of the worst attacks came from rich, black celebrities who are expected to publicly whip one of their strays. Blinded by the limelight, by accolades from the “equity” industry, and by an extreme fear of being labeled as sellouts, these celebrities enslave themselves to a black metaverse that is completely detached from reality.
Vogue editor Gabriella Karefa-Johnson, with a net worth around $1.25 million, called it “hugely irresponsible,” and wrote, there was “no art here.”
“It didn’t land and it was deeply offensive, violent, and dangerous,” Karefa-Johnson tweeted.
Temple University professor Lamont Hill, net worth around $1 million, called West’s decision to wear the shirt “disgusting, dangerous, and irresponsible.”
Author Jemele Hill, net worth about $4 million, called West’s shirt-wearing a “dangerously dumb message to send for someone with his massive platform.”
Van Lathan, a producer and media personality with a net worth of about $1.5 million, tweeted that the slogan was a “white supremacist notion.”
“We don’t need a reminder of the worth of white lives,” Lathan wrote. “America is a shrine to the worth of white people. … The notion that it ALWAYS has to be about white people in America is incredibly frustrating, emotionally draining, and the whole problem.”
Writer Meecham Meriweather, with a net worth approaching $1 million, wrote that Kanye “doesn’t care about the black community,” something West blurted about George W. Bush after Hurricane Katrina.
Jaden Smith, Will’s son, net worth around $8 million, attended the show and walked out early, and later tweeted three words: “Black Lives Matter,” a tweet that rewarded him with tens of thousands of retweets and a quarter of million “likes,” among them Kendall Jenner.
Sean “P. Diddy” Combs, net worth approaching $1 billion, expressed reluctance to address “everything in the world that’s going on,” but was compelled to post an Instagram video about West’s shirt to his 19 million followers.
“Right now, all America has planned for us is poverty, incarceration, and death,” he said. “So, before I could get to any other lives matter, which all lives matter … that black lives matter, don’t play with it. Don’t wear the shirt. Don’t buy the shirt. Don’t play with the shirt. It’s not a joke.”
What planet do these people live on?
As imaginary grievances loop inside their brains, the problems in lagging black communities have become so severe that they’re spilling out everywhere. It’s obvious. Black crime is more random, more violent, and more vicious. There are more black fathers on TV commercials than in some neighborhoods. And somehow, morbid rap, twerking, and cop hatred has become ritualized as authentic black culture.
It’s not enough that these people choose to lie incessantly about the things we see right in front of our faces, but they use ridicule, ostracism, even violence to pressure others to lie, too.
“[People with influence] have people that around them at all times, telling them what to be afraid of,” West told Carlson. “I think I started to really feel this need to express myself on another level when Trump was running for office and I liked him. My so-called friends-slash-handlers around me told me if I said that I liked Trump that my career would be over, that my life would be over. They said stuff like, ‘People get killed for wearing a hat like that.’ They threatened my life. They basically said that I would be I killed for wearing the hat.”
West said he got a call the night before Tucker’s interview from someone who threatened that anyone wearing a White Lives Matter shirt would be “greenlit” – a prison term that refers to “shanking” a person in the shower so he bleeds out before guards even notice he’s missing.
West, worth $6.6 billion according to Bloomberg, has said a lot of dumb stuff over the years, but somewhere between Hurricanes Katrina and Ian, he’s become more sensible – more determined to say the obvious at a time when his critics are more determined to ignore it. It’s refreshing.
For this, if nothing else, West deserves great credit – although, in the grand scheme of things in America since 2020, the gesture was more “too little, too late” than “better late than never,” especially for people who’ve literally died because of this stuff.
And at a time when so many obvious things are being lied about – border security, defunding the police, climate change, COVID-19, vaccine injuries, “the most secure election in American history,” men have babies, zero inflation, and “abortion is a woman’s reproductive rights,” – we’re going to need a whole lot more than “just a black man stating the obvious” to un-ring these bells.
There are a lot of blacks, usually Christians, that hate what BLM has done to the country. The problem is, they are silent out of fear. This isn’t too different to what happened to the Je ws in Europe. When tyrannical and evil regimes are in power, everyone is afraid. It takes tremendous courage for blacks like Candice and Kanye to stand up to BLM thuggery, protected by Democrat leadership, and make such a powerful statement.
So they just forget what happened to Jews in Europe–and pile onto Jews in America– because that’s where their courage ends?
So who’s a REAL Christian? How do we know a real Christian? Who or what defines a real Christian and WHY?
What is the OBJECTIVE definition of a REAL Christian and WHY?
Suppose my neighbor is Jeffrey Dahlmer? Just asking.
West is neither refreshing nor courageous. He is ignorant, bigoted and sick. His enablers, who laud his words and conveniently ignore the words they don’t like, are as brainless as he is.
The Great Physician came for the sick and sinful.
There is hope for Kanye as there is for us all, thank God.
Candace Owens has been a voice for sanity for some time now, ever since she appeared on the public scene. She’s brilliant, consistent, and fearless, which is more than one can say about the erratic and anti-Semitic Mr. West.
“This isn’t too different to what happened to the Je ws in Europe. When tyrannical and evil regimes are in power, everyone is afraid.”
like the bolsheviks in the Soviet Union and reds who controlled the Hungarian Soviet Republic?
the commies who tried to take over Germany in 1918 and Spain in 1935?
one side of history has been told for too long
Uh, when is Kanye going to speak out against the foul, ugly rap music industry that makes billions off black kids, promotes drugs, sex, perversion, self-adulation, and dehumanizes girls and women?
There are fake Christians just like there are pseudo Conservatives and RINOs.
No one counterfeits things of little value.
Only the true, the real, the valuable are counterfeited.
“By their fruits you shall know them.”
BLM is a terrorist organization. They only destroy and never contribute anything positive.
No difference between a swastika and a black lives matters flag
When so many people self censor , it takes the load off the government controlled media. Just makes things easier,
What does melanin have to do with it? Why not just report “Just a Man Stating the Obvious”.
Of course you’re right, but Mr. West was quoting his father.
Individual lives matter to individuals that’s the actual reality we individuals live in.
Adolf Hitler was white does his life matter? It matters to Nazis. Ted Bundy was white did his life matter? How about Jeffrey Dahmer? Idi Amin Dada, the brutal dictator, the cannibal, was black did his life matter? O.J. Simpson, the double murderer, is black does his life matter?
Black lives matter, white lives matter, brown lives matter — all empty, meaningless, inane, bromides.
Individual lives matter to individuals for individual reasons. Some of those reasons are rational, legitimate, life-affirming, and moral, some are the opposite.
But it is easier for superficial, silly, infantile, unthinking, and stupid individuals to live by empty, meaningless, bromides than to live by CONTEXTUAL, rational, principles thoughtfully applied to real lives.
Kanye West is an antisemite; and Candace Owens is a gaslighting appeaser; I’m no longer interested in anything either of them has to say.
Agree 100%.. anyone who tries to defend antisemitic comments is in fact an antisemite. The gall of Owens to tell Jews what antisemitism is is breathtaking.
Has she done that? Silly child, if she has. That would make me revise my otherwise very high opinion of her.
the problem is “anti-semite” doesn’t mean anything any more
you might ask a legitimate question like “Why are jews 20x over-represented in Biden’s cabinet and how is it they occupy 5 of the 6 most powerful cabinet positions despite the fact that jews are less than 2% of the US population? And why isn’t anyone in the US media talking about it?” and you will be labeled an “ANTI-SEMITE!!!” or even a “NAZI NAZI NAZI !!!!”
or you might ask a question like “Why does the NY Times complain about Maine or Vermont or New Hampshire being 30% whiter than the average state and act like something has to be done about it but the NY Times has nothing to say when Biden’s cabinet is 2000% more jewish than the US population?”
Among all the crazy things thus guy says, he occasionally gets a few right. But that’s what I thought about Trump. Our standards for heroes have really dropped.
Some Philosophers haven’t thought things out carefully or are just full of poop. At the end of all of their accusing; Their claim presupposes that as a “WHITE”(FYI my ancestors weren’t nearly white until the 1960’s) Human I EXIST SUPERIOR to all others due to my in-born, innate ability to be what OTHERS CAN NOT! YES!,(It IS only one super power but it only takes ONE to be Super Human) Like all us Super-Humans, I can BE and DO “something” all of those regular rank and file, common, lower case “humans” (By their definition of ME, oddly delineated by my skin color?) Simply Can’t BE and DO! So, according to them, I can’t even stop being SUPERIOR if I tried?! Simply stated, they claim I can’t help being superior to them?! Based on their theory, I Am Racist and that is an ABILITY simply denied them by genetics!
ummm, I don’t agree with their theory.
Have a Nice Day!
Black Lives Matter, except where they should matter most: the black community. More black babies, young children and adults die at the hands of other blacks on a daily basis than die at the hands of the police in an entire year. Drugs and gang violence likely play a large part in this. It’s a travesty and a crime that it seems to be such a secret. The biggest enemy of blacks are other blacks. Next in line are the Democrats and guilt ridden white fools. George Floyd killed himself with fentanyl; he’s no hero, just another waste of a life.