This is the last time I will waste words on KW. John's impulse is correct even as he underestimates West's cultural authority (and oddly again, oversells his fondness for West's music). The real question is -- and I say this in spite of my Hebrew inheritance -- why does anybody -- *anybody* -- give two shits about what this guy has to say? How has he held court for more than a decade and a half? Why was he lecturing at the Oxford Guild? It should turn your stomach to see a black man so venerated when he is, at best, mentally ill, and less charitably, simply not a deep thinker.
This is the last time I will waste words on KW. John's impulse is correct even as he underestimates West's cultural authority (and oddly again, oversells his fondness for West's music). The real question is -- and I say this in spite of my Hebrew inheritance -- why does anybody -- *anybody* -- give two shits about what this guy has to say? How has he held court for more than a decade and a half? Why was he lecturing at the Oxford Guild? It should turn your stomach to see a black man so venerated when he is, at best, mentally ill, and less charitably, simply not a deep thinker.