Behind the Democrat hate for Kanye West

John Kass:
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Since the Oval Office meeting, we’ve heard a lot of irrational screaming about West and how he’s insane for speaking his mind.

One thing is certain. Americans make too much of celebrities. Hollywood stars endorse Democrats for president and it is considered normal behavior.

But Kanye embraces Trump — and gives him a hug — and Democrats hate him.

Why?

Because there is nothing so threatening to the Democratic Party than a prominent African-American like Kanye straying from the Democratic plantation and embracing a Republican.

This they cannot abide. Democrats use racial identity politics to herd voters and keep blacks voting Democratic. Without black votes, there is no Democratic Party.

The shaming of Kanye West is very much like the shaming of white suburban women who won’t put gender first, as Democrats demand.

Similar shaming techniques have been tried on other African-Americans, from brilliant writers like Shelby Steele; from famous economists Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell; and from Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas to former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Each of them, in one way or another, had their “black card” revoked by the high media priests or priestesses who decide such things. Each was reviled, his or her authenticity questioned, condemned by some as race traitors.

But in the process, the inquisitors reveal themselves.

Because it becomes clear that what’s important is not the content of one’s character, but how the color of one’s skin determines how one must vote. Those who use skin pigment to inform their politics are threatened by Kanye.

It’s unfortunate that millions of young people don’t idolize Williams or Sowell or the others I mentioned.

But young people do idolize Kanye. And Democrats can’t allow these young people to realize what Democratic policies have done to the cities, from failing schools to tax policies that drive off the private investment that would rebuild devastated neighborhoods and bring jobs.

So, they shame Kanye and call him a minstrel.
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They are whipping on him like a runaway slave because they fear others might join him.  Since Trump's election, there have been polls suggesting his approval among blacks is in the mid to high 30's  These are devastating numbers for Democrats who rely on monolithic black votes to hold on to power.  There are not enough techies to make up the losses, especially in big cities outside of California.

Nick James argues, BLACKS’ LOYALTY TO THE DEMOCRAT PARTY IS INSANE — NOT KANYE WEST.

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