The millions of enslaved Africans brought to this country under chain & whip & fear were worth more than every bank, factory & railroad combined. There’s nothing about their bondage that was a “choice” other than the choice by white ppl to make black bodies the national currency.
There is *nothing* about being enslaved that was a choice. It was a system predicated upon & maintained by the everpresent threat of violence (via Edward Baptist in ‘The Half Has Never Been Told’) 
Kanye’s rhetoric is a microcosm for a much larger phenomenon in American history in which black people are singularly blamed for the conditions they find themselves in.
“Slavery was a choice.”
“They just don’t want jobs.”
“They’re in prison bc they’re criminals.”
Nah, fam.
“Slavery was a choice.”
“They just don’t want jobs.”
“They’re in prison bc they’re criminals.”
Nah, fam.
The insidiousness of racism is that it can make certain black people mouthpieces for white supremacist ideas
