Friday, November 2, 2018

Kanye West: A Lesson From Booker T Washington and Malcolm X. Part Two

You can love the President without disparaging African Americans. You can love the President, without distorting the history of slavery and the 13Th Amendment. And you can afford to be colorblind, without distorting the impacts of welfare on people of colour.
If you must speak about welfare, you must first take a tutorial from your friend in the White House about corporate welfare, why he champions tax breaks for the rich, and why he thinks not releasing his tax returns is smart, as he told Americans during the Republicans Presidential Primary debate.
Read, brother, read. It makes the man more than money.
I will recommend two books for you. One, "Up From Slavery: The Autobiography of Booker T Washington." And two, "The Autobiography. Of Malcolm X."
Somewhere in his book, Malcolm X alluded to the fact that he didn't realise how deficient he was in vocabulary until he was confronted with English composition in prison. And he devoted his prison life to studying and learning, with the help of Honourable Elijah Mohammed.
He came out a better man, richer in wisdom, changing lives at home and abroad.
Booker T Washington didn't know about education or School until he was about fifteen years old. He was working at a Coal Mine with his stepfather when he accidentally eavesdropped on two white men discussing an institution far away from where you could learn how to read and write. He made up his mind to go. But first, he must save.
He worked and saved for one year, using his stepfather as his bank. When the time came to proceed to the unknown, his stepfather couldn't give an account of one year's savings. Young Booker persevered. And saved for another year.
And up from slavery, Booker started a journey to the unknown. Halfway, he exhausted his savings on transportation and feeding. He didn't go back home. Once again, he persevered.
He got a job at a dockyard and continued working and saving until he was able to raise a sufficient amount of money for the completion of the journey to the Whiteman's world.
He arrived and was admitted after a practical interview, having to do with cleaning. They also offered him a job. And the rest is history.
He built the Tuskegee Institute in 1881, an institution devoted to the training of Black men. And he became the First Presidential Adviser of colour, working with President Teddy Roosevelt.
His search for wisdom and love for books was not in vain. He didn't demonise people of colour to secure the confidence of Roosevelt. He was a man of honour, principles, and uncommon wisdom.

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Ehinon Utubor Kanye West is a troubled human being right from his childhood.
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Alex Aidaghese is going bonkers.
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Benson Idin In the true America of everyone's solicited dream/desire, aren't people supposed to be free to express themselves in anyways of their please, interests, and lack of?

This being true since the founding fathers of the United States of America picked uSee More
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Alex AidagheseUncle Ben, no one is questioning Kanye West's right to free speech. But that he should abstain from dabbling in national issues he is ill-equipped to discuss. Period.
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Benson Idinill-equipped? 

In what ways? How and why?
Except that he has demonstrated acute intelligence and Independence - instead of kowtowing to the usual route that expectancy suggests: becoming a die-hard Democrat because historically blacks (African Americans) ouSee More
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Alex AidagheseI know what the Affordable (Obama) Healthcare Law is. And I also know that Kanye West's friend at the Oval Office, Republicans, and Republican members of Congress have been fighting to kill it. Twice, it reached the Supreme Court, twice the apex court ruled to retain it.
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