Kanye West’s infantile views on slavery have worrying echoes of the alt-right | David Olusoga

Claiming that slaves didn’t do enough to escape their condition is asinine babblingIt has not been a good week for the “Kanye West is a genius” theory. It may well be the case that the rap artist is being judged more harshly than a similarly ill-informed white musician would be, and there’s no doubting his creative talents, but in a single sentence of breathtaking ignorance he has surely placed himself permanently out the running for the position of genius.“Whe...

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