President Obama recently weighed in on the Kanye West and Taylor Swift MTV awards show situation. He basically called Kanye a Jackass for his stunt while Taylor was receiving and accepting her award.
What is interesting is that it became a big, negative media story in many parts of the country when President Obama weighed in on the Professor Gates arrest. President Obama mentioned that the police officers acted stupidly for going to Gates home to check out a call they received about unknown men possibly breaking into the house and ultimately arresting Gates who owns the home.
After the backlash from the media and many Americans for criticizing the police, President Obama decided to have a beer summit at the White House with himself, the arresting officer, and Professor Gates. The President goes further in judging Kanye West and there is no backlash whatsoever from the media or Americans.
Many people want to know if the police are above criticizing or was the situation with Professor Gates being arrested at his own home a grey area which is why so many folks jumped on the President for becoming involved in a local policing issue.
Although Kanye West did not do the right thing the night Taylor Swift won her award, he realized his mistake and publicly stated so. As humans, there is good in realizing an error in judgement and admitting it.
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Posted by Nick Jackson on 8:03 AM // 2 comments
One, the institution known as Fraternal Order of Police is very powerful and rightfully so and Kanye was a jackass. Race matters, but the power of the FOP, as wrongly as it was directed at “us” in the past, is indivisible. Chaos is the other option. The police force is a local, domestic extension of the Executive Powers of the President.
I believe the difference is as follows:
The police officer was basically an unknown outside his area.
Kanye is well known world over due to our pop culture and has what one could make an argument for, a habit of putting his foot in his mouth.
So in my mind that was all about the player and not the game and I'm not mad the Pres. called him a jack ass because in some respects he is but, I also dap him for owning up to it and forget about those folks that are hating. We all have to watch our words and our actions especially as black men.