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Recently, Jay Electronica made news for tweeting out blatantly anti-Semitic stuff from the teachings of Louis Farrakhan. Nick Cannon, Wiley from Britain, and others have been right alongside him in their views on Jews and Judaism. Claiming that they are the rightful sons and descendants of Israel and that Jews should not be there, they are launching online offenses and tweets about Jews.
Since I figure there will be either howls or downplays from the usual white liberals, I'm posting the article from Okayplayer, a website that is widely considered a friend to hip hop artists and their wares.
https://www.okayplayer.com/music/jay-electronica-defends-nick-cannon-anti-semitic-comments-with-anti-semitic-twitter-rant.html
Yet this is barely ever covered in mainstream press. A quick Google search finds no Rolling Stone articles, no Stereogum discussion, no Pitchfork blurb on Google's front pages (I am not digging in the crates for these, so they may exist, but to what extent can that possibly be so? I read those publications and never once have seem the anti-Semitic problems with Farrakhan or Five Percenters discussed.) This is to be expected because the problematic relationship is almost taboo at these left-wing ninny periodicals/online bastions of music criticism.
Jay Electronica called the Jews the devil, cowards, and said that blacks are the real sons of Israel and that we should all read Farrakhan. For that, he was rewarded with a Grammy nomination.
You can pooh-pooh this all you want, but how long until average citizens have had enough of the garbage pumped forth by the entertainment industry? I certainly am. I've dropped out. I know about Jay Electronica because I'm an avid music follower for a 47 year-old, but few recognize the political and social rot and detritus that our industries lionize as cutting edge or excellent.
My question becomes at what point does this break? At what point does the center not hold? Where people like me are forced to choose between crap like Trumpists want and the garbage that this dreck espouses?
Anyway, just a thought or an observation for consideration. Why the free media pass about this given the ultimate concern with being woke? It must be that intersectionality has truly come home to roost on the left and in mainstream culture, rotting everything that it touches. There is no other reason for the omission, no other rationale.
Since I figure there will be either howls or downplays from the usual white liberals, I'm posting the article from Okayplayer, a website that is widely considered a friend to hip hop artists and their wares.
https://www.okayplayer.com/music/jay-electronica-defends-nick-cannon-anti-semitic-comments-with-anti-semitic-twitter-rant.html
Yet this is barely ever covered in mainstream press. A quick Google search finds no Rolling Stone articles, no Stereogum discussion, no Pitchfork blurb on Google's front pages (I am not digging in the crates for these, so they may exist, but to what extent can that possibly be so? I read those publications and never once have seem the anti-Semitic problems with Farrakhan or Five Percenters discussed.) This is to be expected because the problematic relationship is almost taboo at these left-wing ninny periodicals/online bastions of music criticism.
Jay Electronica called the Jews the devil, cowards, and said that blacks are the real sons of Israel and that we should all read Farrakhan. For that, he was rewarded with a Grammy nomination.
You can pooh-pooh this all you want, but how long until average citizens have had enough of the garbage pumped forth by the entertainment industry? I certainly am. I've dropped out. I know about Jay Electronica because I'm an avid music follower for a 47 year-old, but few recognize the political and social rot and detritus that our industries lionize as cutting edge or excellent.
My question becomes at what point does this break? At what point does the center not hold? Where people like me are forced to choose between crap like Trumpists want and the garbage that this dreck espouses?
Anyway, just a thought or an observation for consideration. Why the free media pass about this given the ultimate concern with being woke? It must be that intersectionality has truly come home to roost on the left and in mainstream culture, rotting everything that it touches. There is no other reason for the omission, no other rationale.
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