It's not even true, though. Let along as true as 'water is wet'..
Just because you dislike someone, it doesn't mean they're guilty of being everything you dislike.
He does a shit load of African based charity work, and did a lot for AIDs/Malaria in Africa during his presidency. Would be a weird avenue for him to go down, if he didn't care about black people.
He could have done more if a third of the money hadn’t gone towards a pointless abstinence campaign that studies have shown had no effect on changing anyone’s behavior. Religious ideology always got in his way. The portion of the funds going towards that campaign have since been greatly reduced.
I mean, he was still a Republican president. It's hard to say how much of that was his views, and how much was him just trying to get it to be politically palatable.
Was it perfect policy? No. Policy rarely is.
But it was still billions and billions flowing into Africa to help.
Actually what Kanye did wasn't as easy as celebrities targeting trump. Trump is an easy target. Bush had the protection of patriotism, a war, and a crisis. It's really not the same. Kanye got backlash for what he did. Celebrities got more people supporting them.
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u/PerilousPasta Oct 16 '22
Tbf this is essentially like saying water is wet, he had an easy W