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Kanye was right; Slavery is a choice.
Perpetual subservience to the Democratic Party is a choice. We need coalition building and massive grassroots organizing, not voter shaming.
Nothing seems to strike more fear into American Liberals than a second Trump term. It seems to be what everything reverts back to these days. It was the first thing that most people thought about when rapper Kanye West announced his candidacy via Twitter over the weekend. Theories surfaced that this was all a ploy to divert Black votes from Biden, and help Trump eke out an electoral college victory. I have to be honest; I’d vote for Kanye before I vote for Joe Biden. However, both of them are drastically unqualified for the Presidency in my mind, so I won’t be voting for either of them. As we collectively reckon with systemic racism and mass incarceration at this moment, I’m reminded of Kanye’s 2005 track ‘Crack Music.’ In that one song, Kanye says more about the evils of our racist criminal injustice system than Joe Biden has said, or done, in his entire 50-year political career.
