MSNBC’s Glaude: Kanye West’s Antisemitic Comments Part of the ‘Crisis of White Identity’

MSNBC contributor and Princeton professor Eddie Glaude Jr. said Tuesday on “Deadline” that rapper Kanye West’s antisemitic comments were about the crisis of white identity.

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He added, “It’s also interesting to me, in that it’s the way in which whiteness is, ironically, even with Kanye is, consolidating itself. Because anti-semitism, alongside of white lives matter, all of this is bound up with a crisis of a particular kind of identity and how certain communities are the objects of it, the objects of the violence. {snip} It has something to do with a crisis of a particular understanding of white identity. You don’t have to be white to participate in it. {snip}”