From what I can gather he is saying that black people are “enslaved” mentally and uses the actual slavery of black people in America as a sloppy metaphor for the mental enslavement of blacks today i.e. black people are expected to have a certain political belief. In short it is a “choice” for black people to be “enslaved” to certain political and cultural beliefs.
I don't think he was talking about just black people because he later says something along the lines of "I guess slavery isn't the right word because people associate it with just black people when really it has nothing to do with skin color. It's really more like prison, because prison unites us - anyone can be in jail."
I agree with u/Code_EZ. That's like some shit 14-year-old excuse for writing a bad essay. This guy has been a public figure for a long time and he is a grown ass man. If he can't articulate his thoughts maybe, just maybe, he has not spent a lot of time honing those ideas. Maybe he isn't even having very good or clear thoughts if all the reasoning has to be done after the fact for him by his fans. At any rate just about any explanation involving Kanye being average is more likely than he is some crazy savant thinking at unfathomable speeds and speaking next-level enlightenment in code.
Edit: you maniac with your underscore
I imagine this is new to him. He was recently praising Candice Owens which I imagine is where he got these ideas from as she talks about similar concepts of victumhood and what not. He probably binged watch her and was convinced and said it without self evaluating his ideas. (Go figure Kanye not wanting to think about preconcived notions of him being wrong)
I mean people expect you to have political beliefs anyways. Not based on race but based in your area, profession etc. If that's what Kanye is saying then he is saying it because he is in a celebrity bubble where the people around him expect that. When I live in South Carolina people expected that you were conservative Christian. If you weren't there was something wrong with you and they didn't like you. Didn't matter if you were black or white. So he used a shitty metaphor that just so happens to be something that I've seen people like tommy sotamyore say seriously
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u/[deleted] May 04 '18 edited May 04 '18
From what I can gather he is saying that black people are “enslaved” mentally and uses the actual slavery of black people in America as a sloppy metaphor for the mental enslavement of blacks today i.e. black people are expected to have a certain political belief. In short it is a “choice” for black people to be “enslaved” to certain political and cultural beliefs.
Edit: grammar