This week, rapper Kanye West told a local radio show that
President Obama was having trouble succeeding because he didn’t have
“connections” like those of “Jewish people.” West, who has been criticized by
President Obama in the past for his celebrity marriage to Kim Kardashian (Obama
also called Kanye a “jackass” after Kanye confronted Taylor Swift during the
MTV Video Music Awards in 2009), defended Obama’s incompetence in anti-Semiticfashion:
Man, let me tell you something about George Bush and oil
money and Obama and no money. People want to say Obama can't make these moves
or he's not executing. 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.
There is no question that President Obama has high-level
connections regardless of race – and there is also no question that Obama has
high-level connections within the black community. For West to suggest that
Jews have some sort of connection advantage is purely insane.
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