“When you hear about slavery for 400 years. For 400 years?! That sounds like a choice. Like, you were there for 400 years and it’s all of you all? You know, it’s like we’re mentally in prison. I like the word prison 'cause slavery goes too – too direct to the idea of blacks,” he said in the interview. “So prison is something that unites us as one race, blacks and whites being one race. We’re the human race.”
Honestly, I’ve heard the same argument from people in my part of the country. Oh, and Kayne is a nutjob so there’s that.
He’s being either sincerely ignorant, conscientiously stupid or both. What he said yesterday is very dangerous because there are some vile people, even some on these very boards who will actually agree with this. I’m so glad the other dude on TMZ checked his nonsense. Black twitter actually had fun with this yesterday and the tweets were brilliantly hilarious. #ifslaverywasachoice
That’s what the Republican party is now. Look at the primaries going on atm, it’s a race to brand oneself as the true Trumpist, not the true conservative or Republican.
He’s the perfect type of meme candidate for the youngsters who are already bored with Trump. If he gets a hold of some /pol/ material, scrubbed of slurs, he could actually pull this off.
He doesn’t even need to be a republican either, this kind of stuff can peel off young extremist minorities that believe they are enlightened above their brothers by taking on controversial views.
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