KANYE WEST: 'SLAVERY WAS A CHOICE' COMMENT WAS LOST IN TRANSLATION

ICHEOKU says for a guy who is largely misunderstood, and sometimes purposely too, by a media possessed with sensationalizing of issues in order to mine a story for as long as it possibly could be, taking his latest comment that "slavery was a choice" out of context was to be expected. It was no surprise as such sensationalizing help the media with their ratings as more people are glued to find out when the other shoe will drop. 

So the rapper was on TMZ and sermonized about being black in America and what black people should do in order to change their never ending victim-hood mentality. He specifically mentioned that it was about time, black people moved on from their ever hounding and limiting history of slavery. He said further that staying enslaved for 400 years was to a large extent a "CHOICE" because black people had the numbers and would have escaped slavery if only they had organized themselves enough to revolt and fight their captive white people to regain their freedom. Continuing he said that black people fell victim of a psychological and mental enslavement that hoodwinked them into accepting their situation and doing nothing about it, the reason they remained in their shackles for that long. 

ICHEOKU says Kanye West was simply curious as to what kept black people enslaved for that long without them revolting. What led to such a long tolerance of an intolerable  situation and why they acquiesced with such man's inhumanity to fellow men for so long without doing something about their situation and freeing themselves from it. He was of the opinion that black people were most likely brainwashed into accepting the situation, otherwise it does not make sense that anyone would accept to remain in such an impossible situation for that long. This was the crux of the matter, the gist of what Kanye West said or tried to say; but which a hound dog media skewed and latched on their own interpretation of a sliver of the comment and ran with it. Even other things which he said prelude to the said "offensive" comment and following thereafter, and they were many, including the need for black people to liberate their thoughts and quit from group-think, and for the people to freely express themselves, was lost in the cacophony of noise which followed. 

Possibly, the message was lost in translation and most likely on purpose by a media that wanted to propagate a particular narrative. But to every informed mind who had no dog in the fight, but who dispassionately listened to his entire sermon, it was definitely a different take. ICHEOKU came out from listening to his interview, fully aware and grasping of the very essence of what his message contained. Kanye West was not out to disparage anyone including blacks under slavery, but was simply befuddled that they allowed themselves to be so enslaved and for so long, 400 years, without them doing something about it to free themselves. This was the message which he intended to deliver and which he rightly articulated, but which was somehow mixed up and came off differently. That his critics did not cut him a break due to his basic education which somewhat came in the way of his full articulation and expression was also a matter to be taken in advisement. 

The only issue ICHEOKU had with Kanye West and which ICHEOKU would like to raise is why he agreed to go through liposuction after what happened to his mother, who died while similarly undergoing such cosmetic surgery. If he is fat or was fat, why not discipline himself enough by not eating so much and stop adding weight or better still register in a gym or get a personal trainer to help him with his weight gain. Possibly the Kardashians vanity and vainglorious lifestyle overwhelmed his resistance and made him to agree to do it and he did it to please his wife an din order to remain a good in-law and in their good book. 

But outside this, ICHEOKU is somewhat receptive of his statement; admitted that racial profiling and race biases are still come place in America. But black people should move on from the Kanye West's comment and stop the Lynch mob piling up on him. They should rather try to learn a thing or two from what Kanye West said and work to free themselves completely from the last vestiges of that slavery history and feeling or a mentality that they are still under some form of servitude and inferior to white people. But it is going to take much longer and much hard work to finally, fully mission accomplish on this, as the fight between mankind existed from the beginning of time and will not end until end of time. Thank you Kanye for agitating thoughts and shaking the tree of introspective discussion, admitted the restrictive mob would rather hear none of that, hence their concert to muddle waters and push the current narrative of a mentally challenged Kanye West. 

ICHEOKU is emphatic that nothing is wrong with Kanye West, mentally and/or psychologically; only that people who do not want to hear what he has to say for fear of disrupting certain preprogrammed mindsets, are up in arms to destroy the messenger. They are not interested in the holistic message he delivered but in a sliver of it; geared towards keeping folks where they are, in some sort of bondage of the mind and within a prepackaged confining mental slavery, where certain issues are accepted as given and should not ever be challenged. Kanye West wanted to question this order and Kanye West was met with vitriolic attack in order to stop him and silence him from disturbing the narrative. But regrettably, Kanye West will not be the first, neither will Kanye West be the last, of people to ever rise against a given society's norm or order, who were summarily smacked down to keep them quiet and keep the statuesquo in place. Jesus Christ was killed to shut his message down and Socrates was killed for trying to disturb the peace of society. Shakur Tupac died for the same reason and ICHEOKU prays that Kanye West will not be similarly targeted.