Last year, Panama Jackson, a man who, in the 14 years that we’ve known each other, has become one of my best friends, published a piece on his mother’s support of Donald Trump, and revealed how that ruined his relationship with her…
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…I do not know if Kanye West is aware of the anger and the fury and the disgust and the terror that slogan and the shirts and hats and bumper stickers its plastered on induces. I also do not know, as some have suggested, if this is an elaborate publicity stunt or troll. I do know, however, that I don’t give a fuck.
Intent doesn’t matter as much as action and effect. And Kanye’s recent actions have shown, in a clear and unambiguous fashion, that he doesn’t care about black people. Black people who have supported him and amplified him and even shielded him from and defended him against the type of people he’s aligning himself with. Black people who watched him grow from the person with the name we didn’t quite know how to pronounce who kept getting production credits on Jay Z and Cam’Ron tracks to arguably the most important person in hip-hop. Black people who made him.
Black people like Panama who, again, ended a relationship with his own mother because of what her support of the man that Kanye just called one of his “favorite people” represents.
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