'We are trying to survive in a world where even men who look like our fathers, brothers, sons, and partners are still actively working to maintain systems of oppression and inequality that harm us.'
, referring to the ubiquitous red hat of the Trump campaign. “That’s my favorite superhero, and you made a Superman cape for me.”
Superman, a fictional comic book alien from the planet Krypton, looks human but defies all boundaries of humanity. He can fly, has laser vision, annihilates villains with his super strength, has machismo, and wears a cape. Superman is also very white — so, in essence, Kanye is putting on armor of male whiteness whenever he wears the cap.
Power is a tricky thing. Often, people assume that it has to be absolute. They believe that if one group or individual has power, it necessarily reflects the disempowered status of another group or individual. But Black feminists challenge us to rethink notions like this.
For Kanye, though, Trump’s racism is apparently not a deal-breaker, as he noted on Thursday at the White House. “So when I said ‘I like Trump’ to, like, someone that’s liberal, they’ll say, ‘Oh, but he’s racist.’ You think racism could control me?” KanyePresident Trump, the head patriarch of the United States, has pushed
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