Americano: Kanye West, anti-semitism, and the future of black conservatism

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🗓️ 2 December 2022

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Freddy Gray discusses 'Ye' 2024 with writer, musician and host of the podcast Conversations with Coleman, Coleman Hughes. They consider whether Kanye has a messianic complex or if he is simply trolling the nation.

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0:26.9	Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics and life.
0:35.2	My name is Freddie Gray. I'm the deputy editor of the spectator. I am delighted to be
0:40.2	joined today by Coleman Hughes, who is a writer, a musician and the podcast host of Conversations with
0:47.5	Coleman. And we're going to talk about Kanye West 2024 or Yee 20204. Colman, I did a piece about Yee 2024 this week and I found it very
0:58.3	weird delving into this world because I can't quite understand whether Kanye West is totally
1:05.7	insane or sort of brilliant and insane or just an anti-Semite, or he's just trolling everyone.
1:14.5	What's your impression of this campaign?
1:18.2	Well, Ye is not a serious thinker.
1:21.7	He is someone that would make a horrible leader, in my opinion, and he is not nearly as impressive a thinker and speaker as he
1:32.0	thinks he is. He is a raging narcissist. And I'm agnostic as to whether he is mentally ill.
1:42.0	You know, like if I just met him in my life, I'm not sure I would diagnose him as anything
1:47.0	more than an asshole.
1:48.7	But there have been, I mean, there are flashes of things that suggest that he might be.
1:54.5	On the other hand, I don't want to simply excuse or dismiss the things he says as the ravings
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