You must forgive my hesitation and confusion but I have only just 'met' Mr. Kanye West, a black man who is, so I am informed by Wiki, "an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, and fashion designer". You will understand my hesitation because of my almost total ignorance of all those occupations. Mr. West is married to Ms. Kim Kardashian, again, not a lady I am familiar with although I understand she is exceptionally beautiful and very, er, voluptuous. They have been married for five years and have produced four children.
Already in that potted history you can begin to see some, er, well, eccentricities, shall we call them? Two mega-rich members of the 'show business' fraternity, both black, both moving constantly in a star-blazed firmament never far from constant publicity and yet … and yet … he is a self-proclaimed and practicing Christian! Mr. Andrew T. Walker informs us via the excellent offices of The National Review that:
[T]he news of the release of Kanye West’s newest album, Jesus Is King. It comes after months of news stories about West’s very public conversion to Christianity, a Christianity that bears no resemblance to the vague spiritualism of Moral Therapeutic Deism that is often associated with celebrity conversions.
The lyrics to each song in Jesus Is King are shockingly Christian. It is not an album of feel-good Christian spirituality aimed primarily as a message of uplift. West co-wrote and sang the hit “Jesus Walks” on his debut album The College Dropout (2004), but Jesus Is King is different. Throughout the whole of the new album, West is in many respects deeply critical of modernity and cultural progressivism. There are calls for a focus more on the family than on individual glory. He seems to applaud Chick-fil-A, which in our age is tantamount to endorsing bigotry. Social-media obsession should be exchanged for family prayer. Fatherhood is characterized as a virtue. Materialism is pilloried. Calls for worshiping Christ redound to such effect that West’s first Christian album is arguably more Christian than what most contemporary Christian artists could similarly muster.
Well, 'HOODATHUNKIT'?
Obviously, Mr. West is a man capable of thinking for himself and thinking outside the glitzy box in which he spends so much of his life. I wish him well along with his gorgeous wife and children. He will be sorely tested but, hey, that's the fate of all true Christians. In the meantime, I, too, can only pray that I get through the rest of my life without hearing his music because I fear I would not enjoy it!
Kardashian is not black, "mother is of Dutch, English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry,[16] while their father was a third-generation Armenian-American"
Although she and her sisters tend to be drawn towards black partners.
Posted by: missred | Tuesday, 29 October 2019 at 19:16
I’m afraid you mis-spelt. The kind of “music” this man “performs” is spelt with a silent c.
Posted by: Wigner’s Friend | Tuesday, 29 October 2019 at 19:20
Dear Miss Red, thank you for the correction which shows up the obvious, ie, I know even less about, er, popular 'culture' than I do about politics! Why is nobody surprised?
Wiggers, I take it you're not a fan!
Posted by: David & Son of Duff | Tuesday, 29 October 2019 at 21:11
As I understand it, West became a Trump supporter almost immediately! The youngsters at the gym tell me that West is pretty much "the Culture" in certain quarters of trendy American 'cool people'. His curvy wife, Kim Kartrashian, is often seen in a bikini whose ability to stretch is an ode to the tensile strength of modern textiles.
More seriously, the recent conversion to Trump from pagan Obama Democrat is largely due to many conversations with the very well and properly educated retired professor, Thomas Sowell and to a lesser degree Prof. Walter Williams. Both profs are black intellects.
Posted by: Whitewall | Tuesday, 29 October 2019 at 22:05
Interesting people these Kardashians. They know how to make money, which is "a good thing".
Am I right in thinking their father is now their "other mother" or is that somebody else?
Posted by: Andra | Tuesday, 29 October 2019 at 23:00
You are correct about the other mother. Bruce, now Caitlin, Jenner married the mother of the Kardashians. She was previously married to OJ Simpson's attorney. The two of them then produced a couple more kids.
Damn I know way too much about this clan!
Posted by: missred | Wednesday, 30 October 2019 at 11:21
The Pagan and the Don, contrasting styles ...
https://youtu.be/OsBOWSjOLsE
SoD
Posted by: Loz | Wednesday, 30 October 2019 at 22:18