he can create it, doesnt mean people gonna buy itand if they do....who am i to care
Kanye West Selling Confederate Flag T-Shirts...
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he can create it, doesnt mean people gonna buy itand if they do....who am i to care
Mr. Somebody
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Take that same shirt with the confederate flag wrapped around the grim reaper and put a flattop on that grim reaper. Classic T.
aRoMaN21
over 14 years in the shade...
jilla82
Veteran
for real.
and if they do....who am i to care
I really think Kanye is trolling the fukk out of folks. His haters talk about him more than the folks that like his shyt.
In the same vein as Howard Stern, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Rielly etc... Half of their viewership/listeners were people who hated their guts...making them even more popular and rich.
Yall need to stop being so sensitive and letting someone you dont even know make you feel a certain way.
AlwaysLurkin
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Think he just trynna piss off white folks
why would white folks be mad @ confederate flag merchandise..
if you seen a young black dude wearing a confederate flag shirt how would it make you feel..
I am going to guess that Kanye is going to say that the skeleton with the flag and indian headdress is an attempt to connect them with the horror that slavery and native american genocide inflicted. He thinks it's tragic that people sport these items as appreciation for culture yet fail to recall the destruction that they represent.
That's at least what he should say.
But that still doesn't explain the bag that only has the flag on it.
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It's probably straight c00nery. Kayne clearly is pushing boundaries like he did on Blood On The Leaves and New Slaves. But if he can't explain his artistic intent then.
That would be a wonderful statement if that were the intent. Here's hoping.
AlwaysLurkin
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You think racist white people want some black man making money off their flag
you think the majority buyin it are non whites? have you seen the crowds @ the yezus tour?
h2o_proof
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It's always interesting when we attempt to sell white people (best believe he's marketing these items more toward his white fans) something that caters to pockets of White America because it rarely works. You never see us as A&R's in the Country music departments of record labels or as executive producers of all white TV shows. Kanye's whole rant contained some good points about selling product to the mass public which is largely white people but his examples were mainly fashion oriented. One exception I've seen recently is the number of pro shops geared towards surfing, skateboarding and biking that have popped up particularly on the west coast that are run by Black people.
I think if nothing else, it will paint an interesting portrait of how white people deal with race-related issues juxtaposed with southern white culture where many still hoist confederate flags and wear shirts. When I was in high school, which wasn't but 15+ years ago white kids still wore confederate tees. My initial thought is that they are gonna be a little more resistant to embracing the fashion statement than we are to the shyt they sell us! Maybe the genius in it is it tells us more about ourselves than them. Maybe the genius is that we recognize that we can exploit them the same way they do us. I don't know, but I say sell them all the stereotypical shyt they sell us!
I think if nothing else, it will paint an interesting portrait of how white people deal with race-related issues juxtaposed with southern white culture where many still hoist confederate flags and wear shirts. When I was in high school, which wasn't but 15+ years ago white kids still wore confederate tees. My initial thought is that they are gonna be a little more resistant to embracing the fashion statement than we are to the shyt they sell us! Maybe the genius in it is it tells us more about ourselves than them. Maybe the genius is that we recognize that we can exploit them the same way they do us. I don't know, but I say sell them all the stereotypical shyt they sell us!
maybe im just a weirdo...but I dont take people serious.
This shyt is funny to me. Black folks mad, white folks mad...Kanye is paid
Stay consumed w/ shyt that doesnt matter brehs.
exactly breh.
Ye always wins. He's got people talking about a stupid t-shirt that was on sale at one of his concerts
At the end of the day he's gonna keep making money, and keep making CACS and c00ns alike mad.
Vandelay
Life is absurd. Lean into it.
He really does this shyt to his-self.
why would they be mad. knaye stans never make any sense. can you explain to me why cacs and c00ns will be maad at a confederate flag?
just look at this thread. you got c00ns in here on some "oh my god, i can't believe kanye is doing this. i'm sooo done with him" type of shyt.
CACS are just gonna be mad because he's an unruly negro who doesn't know his "place."
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