Commentary: Kanye's take on the 'loyal slave'
by Kevin Waite, Los Angeles Times
May 09, 2018
3 minutes
Kanye West, the self-proclaimed "voice of this generation," is now a bullhorn for bad history. His suggestion that 400 years of slavery (250 in North America) was somehow a "choice" made by the enslaved drew an immediate and fierce rebuttal from across the media landscape.
Kanye critics rightly point to the long and bloody history of slave rebellion in this country as proof that African Americans often made choices of a very different nature. Leaders such as Nat Turner knew that mutilation, torture and execution awaited in the likely event of their failure, yet they rose
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