Would it be too much to say 2020 has been the worst year of our collective lives? Seriously, even after all the crap we’ve been through this year, we also have a presidential election in November. And here to talk about the election is none other than Kanye West on the cover of GQ magazine.
You might’ve forgot since it’s been 86 years since it happened, but Kanye met with Donald Trump in October 2018 while wearing a red “Make America Great Again” hat. While Kanye he hasn’t been shy about how much he supports Trump, he also didn’t vote at all in the 2016 election. But in a new GQ interview, Kanye said that come November, he will be heading to the polls and implied he will vote to keep Trump in office.
Amid walking back his 2005 statement that “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” and claiming it “stemmed in victim mentality,” Kanye also implied that black people lack critical thinking skills and are “controlled by emotions through the media.”
And when talking about voting, he said that his parents “didn’t fight for me to be told by white people which white person I can vote on.” He then went on to say, “I have no intention other than to be free, and I don’t intend to be free—I just simply am.” But after saying he is free, he then added that “we’re not completely free yet” because someone once told him he shouldn’t refer to himself as a billionaire, which was likely from a PR standpoint.
Anyway, uh, it seems he thinks Trump is the best way to secure that type of freedom. He told the publication:
“No, I’m definitely voting this time. And we know who I’m voting on. And I’m not going to be told by the people around me and the people that have their agenda that my career is going to be over…What’s the point of being a celebrity if you can’t have an opinion? Everybody make their own opinion!”
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