“Kanye knows very well that ‘white lives’ have never been targeted for oppression. Black folks, in contrast, are at the bottom of virtually every economic, social, and political measure because of centuries of individual and institutional racism.”
Statement on Dr. Cornel West Joins the Board of Black Lives Matter Grassroots
In many ways this is a revisitation of the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision, in which ruling Justice Roger Taney claimed, “African Americans had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.”.
