Black Overseers and the Marginalization of Kanye West

Black Overseers and the Marginalization of Kanye West
President Donald Trump hugs rapper Kanye West during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Oct. 11, 2018. Oliver Contreras - Pool/Getty Images
Carol M. Swain
Updated:
Radio host Charlamagne tha God has canceled a TimesTalk interview with Kanye West that was scheduled for Oct. 17.

That’s when the two men were supposed to discuss mental health. According to the left, West’s White House visit last week and his enthusiastic embrace of President Donald Trump were displays of mental illness—an illness that, from their warped perspective, warranted mocking. I’m not making this up.

Carol M. Swain
Carol M. Swain
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Dr. Carol Swain, an award-winning political scientist and former tenured professor at Princeton and Vanderbilt Universities, is a Distinguished Senior Fellow for Constitutional Studies with the Texas Public Policy Foundation and the co-author of "Black Eye for America: How Critical Race Theory is Burning Down the House."
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