TTwo years after his embarrassing defense of Kanye West, who was then responding to MAGA, followed by a lengthy Notes app apology, Chance the Rapper decided to die on another hill defending his rap mentor’s uninformed, stunt-based policy.
On Monday morning, the Chicago rapper and activist took to Twitter to ask his 8 million followers if they supported Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden about West, who tweeted that he would run for president on July 4 and explained his strange platform. in a recent Forbes interview.
“Are you more pro biden or anti ye and why?” Chance tweeted. “I understand that you will want to answer that you are just trying to ’emerge triumphant’ but in this hypothetical scenario where you are replacing Trump, can anyone explain why Joe Biden would be better?” Minutes later, he followed up on that query with an even more puzzling tweet: “I finally got the answer now. I get it. Everyone trusts Biden more than everyone trusts Ye. I think I understand why, I just don’t feel the same way. “
Unsurprisingly, much of the Internet responded to these tweets with question marks, hysterical GIFs, and instructions to “read a book” simply because Chance’s comments are so poorly defined. It’s hard to know who your passive-aggressive frustration is targeting. For one, the pro-Biden and anti-Kanye dichotomy ignores a substantial group of young, multiracial and working-class people, many former supporters of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, who refuse to vote for Biden in November. Or they’re less than enthusiastic to do it, but they also find West’s presidential offer disgusting and downright unrealistic. Ironically, many of these young people belong to or are at least familiar with his fan base as a musician and activist. If Chance directs his dissent toward moderates and liberals who simply want to “get Trump out,” as he points out, instead of choosing a candidate who best meets the needs of marginalized people, it’s strange not to specifically call those people, much less Suggest that West is that candidate.
However, even more troubling than Chance’s misunderstanding about the current dialogue around the Democratic Party is his apparently genuine belief that West, a man with no political experience, doesn’t even have voted Before, and questions about the legitimacy of chattel slavery, you are fit to be President of the United States. Beyond the fact that a Kanye West presidential ticket is virtually unfeasible at this time, West’s political aspirations, as described in his interview with ForbesThey are dumb at best and fatal at worst.
In a telephone interview with Forbes Editor Randall Lane, the rapper and fashion designer questioned vaccines as a solution to end the COVID-19 crisis, calling them the “mark of the beast.” He discussed other topics such as police brutality, education and foreign policy with a dark and religious language and direct admissions of ignorance. Most controversial, however, was that he promoted a dangerous and bogus topic of conversation, often used by conservative experts and pro-life Christian evangelical groups, about the role of abortion clinics, specifically Planned Parenthood, within the black community as “devil’s work” implemented by whites. supremacists
Despite all of this, Chance felt strong enough about his friend’s political agenda that he switched to a strange incoherent speech on Twitter expressing his doubts about the term “presidential,” responding to Western detractors, publishing a poll. asking how users felt about the reparations, asking the Chicago Police Department to report the murder of Black Panther Party activist Fred Hampton, and retweeted an earlier tweet that read “alota u niggas is racist.” It took the rapper almost eight hours to be corrected, mocked, and endorsed by historically obtuse actor Terry Crews to partially acknowledge the flaws of his ways.
“It took the rapper almost eight hours to be corrected, mocked, and endorsed by historically obtuse actor Terry Crews to partially acknowledge the flaws of his ways.“
“Ok, this is me slowly trying to get off this hill without falling or dying,” he tweeted Monday night. “Whoever votes, I hope they will repeal the prison system as we know it, honor black reparations and all treaties with indigenous peoples, and ultimately end homelessness. Whoever God is may bless them. He went on to say, ‘I understand the Ye is unlikely to win the 46th presidential seat, and I understand that everyone who votes for Biden is not necessarily doing it with enthusiasm. ”
While any attempt at self-correction is certainly better than none, Chance still shows the same lack of knowledge he had about blacks in American politics when he defended the West’s right not to be a Democrat two years ago. The stages of this entire debacle are also embarrassingly similar to that earlier incident, as he took the backing of two mistaken celebrities, Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr., for him to change course. Furthermore, Chance framing his tweets and misguided insults to blacks as yet another silly mistake shows a lack of maturity and understanding of the true responsibility of someone who considers himself a leader in his community.
Who knows if Chance will really take time to understand the complexities of black left-wing and liberal thinking in today’s political climate? All we can really hope for is doing it offline.
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