Opinion | Michael Arceneaux: Kanye West's Sunday Service isn't his redemption, it's just more egotism. - NBCNewsTHINK
, but one of the most beautiful, lasting things about Christianity that I keep with me is the idea of redemption — that, because Jesus died for sins, we can be redeemed. Redemption, though, has to be earned; one must make acts of contrition.
Has Kanye West apologized to the Black people he hurt after his insulting remarks to our ancestors and hiswho personifies the very racism that brutalized them? No, but he is exploiting a Black tradition — Sunday services — as a means to reclaim some of the fanfare his uninformed, caustic political views helped diminish.
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