And yet, they are not the primary folks in power. No matter what stupid shit Ye spouts from the sunken place, even as someone who is both rich and famous, he’s not in charge of the mechanisms of power that can put children in cage for being born too brown and on the wrong side of a line. He and people who look like him are not primarily responsible for the school to prison pipeline. In the grand scheme of things, he’s not even a particularly powerful figure in his own industry, but rather is a product SOLD by his industry. Kanye didn’t build the system that he, and I, and you, exist within. Trump, although he didn’t build it, benefited from it, participated in it’s maintenance far more substantially. White men (who had money, land, slaves, status) built the system that we live our lives in, primarily for their benefit, in such a way to keep them in power over a long period of time.
Racism is a system that seeks to build a social hierarchy. That social hierarchy is still largely in place.
