Kanye West? Bad! MEAN! or Just HONEST!

Ok. So everyone is jumping on the Kanye West is bad bandwagon.  No surprise sometimes we as African Americans act like sheep and believe everything we are told by the news or our friends or our parents. This incident is no exception. So you all know about the Kanye incident and if you don’t know about the Kanye incident….

Welcome to America the year is 2009. It is September.  We just had the MTV Music Video Awards, the world is moving towards a global economy wether you like it or not, and Kanye West just said what many of us were thinking and got in “Trouble” for it. I think Kanye was RIGHT! There I said it

KAAAANNNNYYYEEE WWAAASSSS RIGHT!!

What?!?! How can you say that Roosevelt. All of the pundits are saying how horrible he is.  All of the news papers are condemning this act.  Fox News said that Kanye should not be allowed to any more MTV events. (For all of you African American Folks out there I would like to caution you to Be careful when you are on the same side of the argument as Fox News is. ) Everybody thinks Kanye West is bad. You Say?!?  Shouldn’t I think the same thing. I mean after all PINK said Kanye was a waist and she is my idea of an upstanding young woman.

Well, as my grandaddy use to say. “Be careful of what everybody thinks.  Because when everybody thinks it it is usually wrong!!” and you know what usually Grand Dads are right!

Up until last year EVERYBODY thought we would never have an African American president! (WRONG!) There was a time when EVERYBODY thought that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.  (WRONG)
There was a time when EVERYBODY thought that the world was flat. (WRONG)
There was a time when EVERYBODY thought that slavery was an acceptable norm. (WRONG AGAIN!)
And now EVERYBODY thinks Kanye West is out of control.

So before I say wrong, my friends let us consider two very strong facts in the argument of

“Kanye West was telling the truth. Deal with it!”

Exhibit A:      Beyonce wins Video of the YEAR! (Check!)

Exhibit B:      Beyonce is Female! (Double Check!)

Exhibit C:      Taylor Swift wins Best Female Video. (What?!?)

You do the math! You know I am not one to stoke the racial fires that are on a slow simmer here in the United States, but isn’t MTV the same network that refused to play Michael Jacksons Video Billy Jean because Michael Jackson was a black artist and they didn’t think he would appeal to white america?

At the time they said that black music was not “Rock Enough!”   (I.E. Too Black!) I guess appealing to black america wasn’t enough.

So I have to ask why do we get upset with an artist that is tired of the insanity that is the MTV Music Video Awards?  Or MTV period! I think inappropriate behavior begets inappropriate behavior.  Maybe it is time more people started using their voices for what they believe in instead of muttering it under their breath or speaking about it in safe circles. Maybe, just maybe, if we started openly talking about it our issues our issues will start to go away.

Oh and Jay Leno should be thankful that he didn’t ask me a question like “What would my mother say?”  Especially if she would have passed.

Black People I would have shown him what she would have done to me had I asked someone that stupid of a question.

Congratulations Beyonce!

I’m just saying Black People..

Written by R. Smith