Kanye West: Obama Doesn’t Have Same Connections as Jews, ‘Oil People’

http://www.mediaite.com/online/kanye-west-obama-doesnt-have-same-connections-as-jews-oil-people/

oh kanyepaws

Did we really need a new Kanye West thread.

this is important news for ppl who would not normally read the kanye thread(s.)

frankly i support new threads for musicians making asses out of themselves; helps keep me up to date.

algerian goalkeeper, why did you not post this under your regular username?

I don't see what it has to do with you but I just felt like using my old log-in.

quite

i feel like the elision involved in reducing this to Jews, & the kind of lizard-sounding Oil People in the article's headline & this thread's title sensationalises something not super difficult to parse or unusual in its content

this threads title is a direct quote

of a headline that is not a direct quote

i'm being fussy but like ...

That’s because he ain’t got those connections. Black people don’t have the same level of connections as Jewish people. Black people don’t have the same connection as oil people.

Leaving aside the Jewish angle because Picard facepalm, but it seems strange to use Obama as an example here. You can't get elected president of the Harvard Law Review without being one of the best connected motherfuckers in the world. Of the United States maybe, but not HLR.

kanye is so, so dumb

He's being more gender-inclusive than using the traditional oilmen.

kanye is basically like a famous redditor who makes amazing music occasionally

The endearing naivety slightly offsets the baseline offensiveness. But only slightly.

kanye is such a moron

Well, it is the first night of Hanukkah - a holiday celebrating Jewish people's lamp oil miraculously lasting 8 days. Maybe he's humbly stating that Obama doesn't have divine connections to god that would allow such miracles?

kanye is basically like a famous redditor who makes amazing music occasionally

this is just a post-ascension spiritual-master level burn here

The endearing naivety slightly offsets the baseline offensiveness. But only slightly.

heh