Kanye West says:

The first thing we’re going to do to stop racism is to stop focusing on racism..

It makes sense, if you have cancer and you stop talking about it, it disappears. That’s not what the Doctors say but I’m a blogger so I definitely know what I’m talking about.

Asking uneducated/unconscious rappers about racism is just like asking me for medical advice, it doesn’t make sense, and while I may know something I’ve heard in passing I still have zero knowledge or background in medicine. What you’ll get from me is foolishness, JUST LIKE KANYE.

Racism is a cancer within our society, it’s a silent killer with a vicious wrath. If it’s too far gone you leave it and death arrives, but if you treat it there’s a chance you can get rid of it. My mother still does chemo, the cancer has been stable but it’s still there, it’s been almost 10 years but she still gets treatment. I’m not sure if Kanye is familiar with Critical Race theory or he’s only focused on Karl Lagerfeld, but a colourblind approach doesn’t remedy anything.

We need to identify racist policies,philosophies, and insights or nothing will ever change. I’ve seen posts about how Kanye used to be the on rapping against capitalism, and institutional racism, and how he spoke up against the privilege that black people were not afforded merely because of their skin colour. In these posts people wonder how this same rapper now wants to turn a blind eye to racism. A friend of mine suggested that maybe this means he was never really rapping about the issue for the community. It makes sense though, it was only an issue when it affected HIM, when HE wasn’t granted the opportunities that others had HE spoke up; when HIS skin colour was used as a strike against HIM – HE saw it as a problem. But luckily he has the money and the power now, he’s transcended colour and joined the likes of Pharrell where Racism is only an issue for the poor. It seems like a lose-lose, we want our black celebrities to speak up about the issues, but we don’t want them to speak for us especially if they contradict our beliefs and realities. I just think it sucks that the people who aren’t educated on these issues seem to be handed the microphone, and the conscious ones seem to be shouting into the wind. Next time you want to talk about racism with a rapper please hit up Nas, KRS-One, Common or David Banner… I think it’s safe to say that Kanye West doesn’t care about black people.