Althouse: Kanye speaks (and goes meta on himself, with "This is a free man talking").

October 26, 2019

Kanye speaks (and goes meta on himself, with "This is a free man talking").

This is a free man talking. pic.twitter.com/mLr59u2Okf
— CJ Pearson (@thecjpearson) October 26, 2019

33 comments:

traditionalguy said...: Don’t judge a Stable genius by the color of his skin. Interestingly, Kanye and MLK are both Christian men from Atlanta.; 10/26/19, 1:53 PM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: Sing it, Kanye.; 10/26/19, 1:55 PM
Sebastian said...: "a free man talking"

So, you believe what he professes to believe? Or do you know better?

Kanye has his own reasons, but he is beginning to tap into part of the conservative experience that Althouse, in her feminine timidity and pretense of neutrality, has yet to grasp: that under prog hegemony, being out as conservative is profoundly liberating, more liberating than the I-don't-support-either-side pose.; 10/26/19, 1:56 PM
mockturtle said...: Yep. Kanye is well and truly woke. In the good sense.; 10/26/19, 2:04 PM
YoungHegelian said...: Look, if Little Richard can find Jesus, Kanye West certainly can!

But, as for the politics, there's nothing miraculous about this. This is simply the gender gap (male -- Republican, female -- Democratic) in voting moving from the wider mixed society into the black community, which has heretofore voted monolithically Democratic.

The entire first world is in political turmoil. It's not just Kanye going wiggy for Trump. Such tectonic shifts in the political landscape can not help but affect blacks in countries such as the US, UK, etc.

I still admit, I enjoy seeing Kanye excitedly reel off his talking points. As our Hostess With the Mostest once said "The Left looks for heretics, the Right looks for converts".; 10/26/19, 2:11 PM
Char Char Binks, Esq. said...: James Corden is a British asset interfering with American elections.; 10/26/19, 2:12 PM
Michael Fitzgerald said...: And to think, 15 years ago this guy was all: "George Bush hates black people".; 10/26/19, 2:26 PM
gilbar said...: he speaks the gospel truth!
The Only thing, that you're Forced to do;
is fly fish, if you live in Wyoming!
Particularly, if you own land, with monster big trouts!; 10/26/19, 2:33 PM
Seeing Red said...: Being a husband, a father and growing up does this.; 10/26/19, 2:43 PM
Marc in Eugene said...: I don't get the 'meta'-- is it simply that Mr West is evincing self-awareness? but then I've never really understood the 'meta' business.

Mr West also said in an interview that "Rome is the real Silicon Valley of humanity". (He's referring to Rome the civilisation and empire, not to the Holy Roman Church.)

Am not listening to the new album again because I find the music not particularly congenial but the lyrics that I understood are indeed edifying. Am going to add the return of the so-called 'Blue Laws' to my list of political desiderata.; 10/26/19, 2:44 PM
Rick.T. said...: The Democrats worst nightmare...; 10/26/19, 2:50 PM
Fernandinande said...: Kanye has white liberals and the Democratic agenda for black people totally figured out.

Oh boy that's all racially charged 'n' stuff!

Remove "white" and "black" and it makes more sense: liberals want you to vote for liberals.; 10/26/19, 2:55 PM
Quaestor said...: A rap artist who swims against the tide of cancel culture is a prima facia example of a free man talking. A marginal white entertainer speaking with similar boldness would be a dead man walking.; 10/26/19, 3:00 PM
Nick said...: He's talking about breaking away from the inherent racism of Progressive doctrine, and describing himself as a free man is where you get hung up?; 10/26/19, 3:01 PM
tim in vermont said...: The white left, blowing smoke up people’s asses for generations, while turning whatever they touch to shit.; 10/26/19, 3:09 PM
Ann Althouse said...: “ I don't get the 'meta'-- is it simply that Mr West is evincing self-awareness? ”

The line is spoken by West himself in the clip.

The tweet makes it look like Pearson’s commentary, which would not be meta.

So... you’ve got to watch the clip. I tried to phrase the post title to make that clear.; 10/26/19, 3:21 PM
Ann Althouse said...: I tried to listen to a little of the new music, but I dislike the sound. Too artificial. Where’s the warmth?; 10/26/19, 3:23 PM
Marc in Eugene said...: I heard Kanye say the 'this is a free man' line: I don't understand why that's 'meta'-- I really think I don't understand, haven't understood, what 'meta' is used to signify; I'll go off to try to remedy my ignorance.

'Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding' in 'Jesus is Lord'-- the sound of the car letting you know you've left the key in the ignition (according to an esteemed composer/music blogger).; 10/26/19, 3:49 PM
Dude1394 said...: We need lots more free people talking.; 10/26/19, 4:03 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: imagine the look on his face at the GMA Dove Awards

... when Taylor Swift yanks the award out of his hands; 10/26/19, 4:30 PM
Earnest Prole said...: The best thing about Kanye is that he makes Trump seem virtually sane.; 10/26/19, 5:44 PM
tim in vermont said...: Daily Wire, by Molly Prince

President Donald Trump excoriated Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) on Saturday morning after the Democratic presidential candidate announced she would not take part in a criminal justice forum at a historically black college after the president was given a “Bipartisan Justice Award.” “Badly failing presidential candidate [Harris] will not go to a very wonderful largely African American event today because yesterday I received a major award, at the same event, for being able to produce [and] sign into law major Criminal Justice Reform legislation,” Trump wrote in a series of tweets.; 10/26/19, 6:33 PM
DavidUW said...: Well he’s right.; 10/26/19, 6:42 PM
Bay Area Guy said...: Kanye is leaving the Leftwing plantation.; 10/26/19, 7:03 PM
Ann Althouse said...: Meta just refers to a switch to talking about the talking.; 10/26/19, 7:12 PM
wildswan said...: I've heard about twenty minutes of a Kanye service. It was a long song or chant or a rap really, about freedom in Christ. A rapper who tries to be a good Christian. A meta rapper. And he attacks abortion as it relates to blacks. Millions will hear those words coming from him. Is it all sincere? Well, you note the liberals hate him. And remember how often Bob Dylan changed, always keeping something from what he found on the way, even the Nobel prize.; 10/26/19, 7:50 PM
tim in vermont said...: "The best thing about Kanye is that he makes Trump seem virtually sane”

And the representative of the white left weighs in to explain to the black man his own interests. <<-- You can read that either way.; 10/26/19, 8:09 PM
Birkel said...: The best thing about comments like Earnest Prole's is that Trump will get about 10% more of blacks' votes in 2020 than he did in 2016.
And 10% more of latinos' votes too.; 10/26/19, 8:14 PM
ndspinelli said...: He better hire more body guards.; 10/26/19, 8:16 PM
traditionalguy said...: Trump, Kanye, Barr , Giuliani all suffer from talking over peoples heads quite often. But in a war you really need such men’s active intelligence leading your attacking force.; 10/26/19, 8:23 PM
RichAndSceptical said...: Conservatism is just another word for self reliance.; 10/27/19, 7:43 AM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: Kanye wandered off the leftwing nazi totalitarian corrupt HIllary Democrat party plantation.

He must be punished by those oh so tolerant leftwing nazis.; 10/27/19, 9:45 AM
Narayanan said...: Drawing parallels!?

https://ricochet.com/692804/kanye-and-dylan/; 11/3/19, 6:28 PM