Kanye West: A Tool To Politically Capitalize the Black Lives Matter Movement?

Kanye West (left) and Kim Kardashian (right). In social sciences, there is now even a measure of discrepancy called the ‘Kardashian index’.

African-American music artist Kanye West stunned fans after confirming he will be running for president in 2020 year’s presidential election. This was no surprise at all, to be honest. For years, West has said that running for president was part of his plans. During the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards he stunned viewers by announcing that he was going to run for president in 2020, and later pushed the date back, saying he would actually run in the 2024 contest. He himself told the American public about his own plans and political agenda. It was not a joke nor a conspiracy theory. It is a fact that he said this prior to the 2020 presidential election campaign.

According to an article published in the New York Times, the Black Lives Matter movement may be the largest movement in U.S. history, on the authority of scholars and crowd-counting experts. Professor Woodly said that the civil rights marches in the 1960s were considerably smaller in number. “If we added up all those protests during that period, we’re talking about hundreds of thousands of people, but not millions,” said Woodly (Buchanan, Bui & Patel, 2020). The still on-going protests peaked on June 6, when half a million people turned out in nearly 550 places across the United States. Figures suggest than an estimated 15 million to 26 million people…