Disclosure: Happy Pride Month, Black Music History Month, and Caribbean American Heritage Month. If you are easily trigged, annoyed, or bothered please stop reading. To my returning readers, thank you for your continued support and understanding. This is the BET Awards 2022 Review (PART III).
As I continued to watch the BET Awards there was a segment called the LifeTime Achievement Award its recipient this year is Sean Combs who goes by other names including (P. Diddy, Diddy, and Love). Prior to Love's acceptance speech there someone comes on the stage to give their flowers as to why this person deserves this prestigious award. The person selected was Kanye West, this moment made me feel a way. I heard his speech in part, "... he inspired so many of my choices, so many of my life choices, my wife choices. ... it's like people they get amnesia." This particular part stood out to me because the choices that he made affected his own people and caused harm to Black Women in the process.
If Kanye West had said the comments or did the things he has done to any other religious group or any other minority group he would not be able to step onto that BET Awards stage no matter how much Love wanted him there, no matter how much money is in his bank account. We must be careful as to who we allow back into the fold as their actions have affected many along the way. Make no mistake I am not the moral police. However, let us be honest as a community why do we still allow Kanye West to be still be invited to Culture's Biggest Night yet Chrisette Michele still can't even get a BET, Essence Festival, Soul Train, NAACP, or Grammy performance slot.
Back in 2016, during his tour, he took time out of his concert to attack Beyonce (The First Lady of Music) over her VMA Video of the Year win by stating, "... I was hurt, because I heard you wouldn't perform unless you won Video of the Year, over me and over Hotline Bling," when he knows the VMA voting process is in the hands of the viewers who cast their votes each day up until the voting closes prior to the VMA Awards premiering on live television. Overall Beyonce walked away with six (6) VMAs that year including Video of the Year and Best Female Video, Best Choreography, and Breakthrough LongForm Video to name a few, which propelled Beyonce into breaking the most VMA wins with 21 overall wins at the time.
This is the same KW paid approximately $85,000 for a Whitney Houston picture (bathroom) for his artist Pusha T album Daytona, neither Pusha T, anyone on the label stopped him and said you're going too far. We all know of Whitney Houston's struggles prior to her transitioning and to use it for "art" was and still is disgusting which made me realize where Pusha T and KW stood. Had another artist acquired a picture of his mother prior to her transition there would be no question asked that the artist or group would no longer survive the industry. No artist would use place on their record of KW having a mental breakdown on their record because it's wrong.
Kanye West is the same man that went on TMZ and stated "When you hear about slavery for 400 years. ... For 400 years? That sounds like a choice." This is the same Kanye West while at his 2020 rally chastised a young Black Woman Iesha M. Daniels who was his supporter of his at the time allowed a young White Woman to talk about her stance but when it came to Iesha KW went ham, interrupting her talking points, but cuddled the young White Woman who was making the same talking points. Then proceeded to attack his ex-partner influencer/model Amber Rose by calling her, "... a prostitute and God purged him or her then he found Kim and his life is better." At the same rally continued his venom by disrespecting the legendary Abolitionist, Union Soldier, Mother, Wife, SHero, and Icon Harriet Tubman, that she in part,"... never freed the slaves she just had them work for other white people." Still, as a community, we must move past this incident and bring KW into the fold. Other incidents of KW denying or disrespecting other Black Women include holding back one of his most versatile artists Teyana Taylor, and denying Nicki Minaj a fashion collaboration because "... my wife ... wouldn't love the idea because I should be giving that to my wife instead."
This is the same man that went to the White House to meet with 45 and stated, "You made a Superman cape for me, ... stopped the war in the North Korea region," when will we realize that Kanye West is not for the community's progress and that using his influence/power/money is only hurting us long-term.
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