Kanye West sports the Confederate flag

Dear friends,

I just saw the link below on the page of a popular person on Facebook...even though I’ve been well aware of it for almost my entire life, it still amazes me that so many African American people have so little dignity...one woman even wrote the comment: let Kanye West go and get the money, “Cha Ching!”. The worst part is the woman who wrote that is very likely someone’s mother.

Unfortunately, in his absolute stupidity, Kanye West didn’t even know what the Confederate flag represents. There were actually four Confederate flags; the one that most of us know about was called the Battle flag. Of course, as well, there were a few thousand black slave masters in the antebellum South. Consequently, there were some 10,000 black Confederate soldiers who fought to uphold slavery. Today, their spiritual descendants are known as hip-hop moguls and the like.

So, at least to me, the deeper issue is: why do so many black people like Kanye West and the woman mentioned above, along with the earlier mentioned black slave masters and black Confederate troops, satisfied with having so little respect for themselves, as long as they’re making money?

G. Djata Bumpus
http://www.today.com/entertainment/kanye-west-confederate-flag-my-flag-now-8C11493378