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The time has come to talk about Kanye West and this shirt: WHITE LIVES MATTERS

By Carolina Hernandez Solis.

Why is she violent and irresponsible?

The short answer is because the phrase emerged as “a racist slur” that has been adopted and promoted by white supremacists.

And because it minimizes the Black Lives Matter movement, which was born to dismantle a system that was designed to criminalize people of African descent.
It's a phrase frequently used by supporters of former President Donald Trump.

But the worst thing is not that Kanye does not measure the impact of his words. The worst thing is that he insists on running for president and is terrified that, in one attempt, he might get it. And it is that the extreme right spreads dangerously.

We saw this in Brazil, where the elections had to go to a second round because the current president, Jair Bolsonaro, obtained 43.21% of the votes, despite previous polls giving him a maximum of 371% of the votes.

There is also the victory of the far right in the Italian legislative elections, where the conservative coalition led by Giorgia Meloni won so overwhelmingly that it also achieved an absolute majority in Parliament.

According to official data, never before have extremists governed one of the bloc's major economic powers, and never before has the head of government of a founding country of the EU been a far-right extremist.

And the problem is that the European far right today has disturbing characteristics. For example, everyone agrees that societies should be unequal: that white Europeans should be above Europeans who are Arab, black, Asian or simply darker than usual.

They are also extremely nationalistic.

Does a familiar speech sound familiar to you?

In 2018, Kanye West met several times with then-President Donald Trump while proudly wearing the classic red cap with the slogan: "Make America Great Again."

But the rapper's speeches have been deeply offensive, violent and dangerous.
Once, during a 2018 interview with TMZ, West said that slavery wasn't real.

On another occasion, when he was "campaigning," his stance on abortion was questioned and he broke down in tears as he told a story of "how he almost killed his daughter," but God stopped him.

The rapper said he believes abortion should be legal, but proposed something called a "maximum increase," which would involve giving "a million dollars or something" to women who have a baby to discourage them from terminating their pregnancies.

His stance on gun control was also controversial, to say the least.

West also spoke out against increased gun control, saying that "shooting guns is fun" and that if people stopped owning guns, other countries could invade the United States and "enslave" its population.

Now with the rapper's new scandal, his t-shirt and his stance that the Black Lives Matter movement was all a lie and his closeness to the conservative US politician, Candace Owens, the question is whether he is seriously thinking of making that his campaign slogan and, even worse, there will be those who buy into his idea and jump on that train.

The time has come to talk about Kanye West and this shirt: WHITE LIVES MATTERS

Carolina Hernandez SolisFor more than 20 years I have worked as a journalist in Mexico.
I started as a sports reporter at Grupo Reforma.

Afterwards, I covered local, political and community news in Sinaloa and Tamaulipas, states with high levels of drug trafficking activity.

I saw colleagues die just for exercising their profession.

I later worked as Editor-in-Chief at Reporte Indigo and as Editorial Manager at Código Magenta, in Nuevo León.

Just two years ago I left the traditional work structure to start my own business as an independent journalist. I produced the video column Yo qué voy a saber (What am I going to know) with which I always sought to open a dialogue on topics that we generally don't like to talk about and to bring them down to earth without so much fuss.

I currently have a podcast called Sin Esdrújulas and I participate with a video column in Latinus and another in Ruido en la Red.

I teach journalism classes at the University of the Gulf of California.

I actively participate in social networks because I am convinced that it is necessary to put important issues on the table, without filters, accessible to all, without subtleties, and from a simple perspective that manages to move consciences.

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