Posted on 04/24/2018 5:36:00 AM PDT by SJackson
A seismic shift in the cultural and political American landscape this weekend emanated from an unlikely epicenter: superstar rapper Kanye West, who tweeted a controversial endorsement of black conservative commentator Candace Owens. Nothing triggers leftist anger quite like blacks thinking for themselves, and not like they do. So the left erupted with predictable fury toward both West and Owens.
Kanye, whose ubiquitous wife Kim Kardashian was a prominent supporter of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, has drawn leftist fire before. First, he incurred online scorn from the left and right in 2015 for announcing his serious intention to run for President in 2020. Then shortly after the 2016 presidential election, he shared with a California audience that he didnt vote, but if he had, he wouldve voted for Trump, an admission that was unusual to say the least for a celebrity of his stature, black or white. It angered and bewildered fans so much that they actually expressed concern about Kanyes mental health.
In December of 2016, he met briefly with Trump, who referred to Kanye at the time as his friend, to discuss multicultural issues, primarily the topic of violence in Chicago where Kanye was raised. This showed some surprising independence of mind and considerable courage on Kanyes part, considering that black-on-black violence in blighted urban centers controlled by Democrat politicians is a scourge the left is silent about.
Then this past Saturday morning, Kanye dropped a bombshell tweet, declaring, I love the way Candace Owens thinks. As of this writing it has been retweeted over 21,000 times and liked over 81,000 times. A few minutes later he followed up with another seemingly supportive message, only free thinkers, which holds similarly high numbers of retweets and likes.
Owens is a millennial black conservative commentator known to her 183,000 subscribers on YouTube as Red Pill Black. Her recognition factor was increased last September by an interview with fellow former lefty Dave Rubin on his immensely popular YouTube talk show, The Rubin Report. In that interview she discussed her journey from left to right, her issues with the lefts corrosive identity politics, and her thoughts on activist journalists essentially serving as media hitmen. Rubin has continued to be a big supporter of Owens.
That November she joined many other prominent conservative figures such as Mark Steyn, Sebastian Gorka, James OKeefe, and Ann Coulter at the David Horowitz Freedom Centers annual Restoration Weekend in Palm Beach, Florida, an invitation which she later told Horowitz changed my life. I was pretty unknown until then.
At Restoration Weekend, Owens met Charlie Kirk, leader of the conservative youth nonprofit Turning Point USA, who was so taken with her presentation that he appointed her director of urban engagement for the organiztion. Both she and TPUSA are being demonized in media reports now as far-right, because the left smears anyone to the ideological right of the lifelong supporter of Communist causes, Bernie Sanders, as equivalent to the Taliban. Owens recently spoke at a TPUSA event at UCLA, where she was heckled by a Black Lives Matter contingent in the otherwise mostly-supportive audience. Owens delivered a smackdown (see video below) in which she memorably noted that the difference between the BLM hecklers and the respectful blacks elsewhere in the audience was a victim mentality versus a victor mentality. In a tweeted clip from the event, Owens referred to the protesters as a bunch of whiny toddlers, pretending to be oppressed for attention.
She has even come to the attention of Donald Trump, whose family has embraced her as a friend and supporter. Of the President who has done more for black Americans in one year than his predecessor did in eight, Owens said, I love the guy, I love him, because what he represented to me is the death of political correctness, and you have no idea how necessary that death is. The truth is that Trump as an individual appeals to younger people. His whole style is younger, its fresher, its not buttoned up, its authentic. Thats the way we speak. Were the LOL nation.
Conservative blacks like Owens are dismissed by the left as Uncle Toms and race traitors, so it takes extraordinary courage to face that ugly onslaught as she and Kanye West have done. Increasing numbers of blacks are finding that courage, however. Owens told Breitbart News in March that the news media are pretending that black conservatives dont exist, when in fact the truth is, its growing, were multiplying. Every single day a black person goes, Okay, you know what? Being a victim is boring.
That message seems to have caught the ear of Kanye West, whose tweet this weekend touting Owens sparked a flood of responses. On the conservative side, activist and writer Richard Armande Mills wrote, I have legitimate tears in my eyes. For a hip-hop artist with a platform like Wests to promote and align with a strong conservative like @RealCandaceO. Im in awe. This is amazing. My morning is made. Actress Roseanne Barr, who plays a Trump supporter in her recent reboot of Roseanne which delivered jaw-dropping ratings, responded with a simple, Bingo.
Race-baiting replies from the left included a response from washed-up comedian (and former Roseanne Barr husband) Tom Arnold, who has plenty of spare time now in which to rail against Donald Trump on social media. He chimed in with illiterate disapproval: Aside from being an insane alt right race pimp Candace Owens thinks Donald Trump is literally the messiah not you @kanyewest so you might want to reconsider.
Owens replied to Arnold and two other prominent critics, When @PerezHilton, @TomArnold, @ShaunKing, 3 white men, rush to viciously attack the freedom of two black people who refuse to be pawns to a leftist ideologyit should ring as a wake up call to the world about who the real racists are. None of you white men own my blackness.
This agitated Arnold, who wrote back a typically ugly, profane leftist attack: Thats a lot of extra words @RealCandaceO so you can suck racist d--- by trying to insult an actual hero @ShaunKing hahahaha. #MAGA a tweet he later deleted.
Candace Owens is making money off of denigrating black folks for her mostly white audience, asserted black sports broadcaster Herb Lawrence. Same as that [NRA advocate Colion] Noir guy, same as [actress/activist] Stacey Dash, same as Allen West etc.
Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King tweeted that Kanyes admiration for Owens is sad. Owens shot back at the purportedly biracial King, Out of curiosity are you still pretending to be black?
Writer and transgender activist Raquel Willis tweeted, Candace Owens has proven to be anti-Black, anti-LGBTQ and fact-hating. Every one of those descriptors is false but typical of the lefts politics of personal destruction. For Kanye to align himself with her is messy and dangerous.
Whats dangerous about it is that it threatens the lefts stranglehold on the black community. As Owens tweeted Sunday, They control your media. They control your idols. They control your mind. If blacks and other minorities start getting the subversive idea that they can think for themselves and thrive on their own, off the Democrat plantation that has kept them under the Partys thumb for half a century, then the Democratic Party is finished. Dangerous indeed.
One Kanye critic wrote, Im ready to delete, burn and never buy another Kanye album or item if this is who [sic] he supports, referring to Owens. Political commentator Touré (who wisely eschews his last name Neblett), formerly an MSNBC regular and now reduced to podcasting, echoed that sentiment when he tweeted, How many times can Kanye signal his affinity for people with anti-Black policies and positions before it takes a toll on how Black fans feel about him?
But thanks to Kanye, what many of those black fans are now being exposed to is Candace Owens message that it is the Democratic Party that holds anti-black policies and positions, while conservatism offers blacks freedom from Progressive slavery.
As the firing squads gathered around him, Kanye not only didnt back down, but doubled-down with a series of short tweets, including: Express what you feel not what youve been programmed to think, get past the past, question everything, the blinders are off, People demonize people and then they demonize anybody who sees anything positive in someone whose been demonized, the thought police want to suppress freedom of thought, constantly bringing up the past keeps you stuck there, there was a time when slavery was the trend and apparently that time is still upon us. But now it's a mentality, and self-victimization is a disease. These are clarion calls for black liberation from the one-party mind and one-party state that runs the ghettos and the killing fields and the failed schools of Americas inner cities.
Owens herself responded to Kanyes praise with, Im freaking out. @kanyewest ....please take a meeting with me. I tell every single person that everything that I have been inspired to do, was written in your music. I am my own biggest fan, because you made it okay. I need you to help wake up the black community.
Kanye may already have begun that process. He has 22.5 million Twitter followers. The seven words he tweeted about Candace Owens boosted her profile immeasurably, but more importantly, they sparked a vital conversation the left does not want blacks to have.
Let’s wait a bit on glorying in Kanye’s conservatism. At least, until Kim is loudly on board, haha.
Just like Roseanne Barr, Kayne West is a loose cannon. Its good to see that he sometimes says conservative things. But he also says crazy things. I’m glad he’s saying these things since a number of people who would not listen to traditional conservatives listen to him. But he is no new conservative hero.
That said, if he really is on board the Trump Train, expect some very nasty stuff about his personal life to come out in the MSM.
I don't care if he is a conservative or not. He deserves credit for being his own man and thinking for himself - irrespective of the hatred that will come his way from the left.
Was LBJ wrong?
No one is arguing that Kanye West is a conservative hero. You misunderstood the piece which was about signs of cracking in the democrats’ monopoly over blacks.
Spot on. This is seismic.
A major player in the black culture just announced the Emperor has no clothes. Black teens just got red pilled.
maybe he and Kim like the tax cuts
Holder calls the US cowards? Brave people will continue this discussion. This is a debate that needs to happen.
No he is not a conservative. Nut, squirrel thing.
Plus hes bi-polar. So theres that
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Another step forward
I wish “blacks” had stood up when their own said all those things, and even worse, about Condoleeza Rice, but I guess better late than never.
Yes,
About just about everything.
I don’t trust this guy, and I won’t be surprised if he does a 180 and starts excoriating Trump next week, or tomorrow.
Agree. Wasn’t Rush touting Charles Barkely as a conservative several years ago and that didn’t pan out so well.
I think I remember that as well. Now his best bud is radical spike lee.
Who knows...next week the same group singing his praises may tell him to “just shut up and sing” if he veers off course.
Kanye West is rude and boorish, but he is an independent thinker who won’t be held captive by leftist groupthink.
LOL!......................I didn't know Perez Hilton was a man.............
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