By Carolina Hernández SolÃs.
Why is she violent and irresponsible?
The short answer is because the phrase emerged as "racist speech" that has been embraced and promoted by white supremacists.
And because it minimizes the Black Lives Matter movement 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 it in Brazil where the elections had to go to the second round because the current president, Jair Bolsonaro, obtained 43.2% of the votes, despite the fact that previous polls gave him a maximum of 37%.
There is also the victory of the extreme 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 the ultras governed one of the great economic powers of the bloc and never before has the head of government of a founding country of the EU been an ultra-rightist.
And the problem is that the current European extreme right has disturbing characteristics. For example, everyone agrees that societies should be unequal: that white Europeans should rank above Arab, black, Asian, or simply darker than usual Europeans.
They are also extremely nationalistic.
Does a familiar speech ring a bell?
In 2018, Kanye West met with then-President Donald Trump several times, 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," he was questioned about his stance on abortion and broke down in tears as he told a story of "how he almost killed his daughter," but God stopped him.
The rapper specified that he believes that abortion should be legal, but he proposed something called a "maximum increase", which would consist of giving "a million dollars or something" to women who have a baby to discourage them from terminating their pregnancy.
His stance on gun control was also, to say the least, contentious.
West further spoke out against greater gun control, stating that "shooting guns is fun" and that if people stopped having guns, other countries could invade the United States and "enslave" its population.
Now with the new scandal of the rapper, his shirt and his position that the Black Lives Matter movement was a lie and his closeness to the conservative politician of the United States, Candace Owens, the question is if he is not seriously thinking that this is his campaign slogan and, even worse, there will be those who buy into his idea and get on that bandwagon.
Carolina Hernández Solis. For more than 20 years I have worked as a journalist in Mexico.
I started as a sports reporter at Grupo Reforma.
Later, I covered local, political and community news in Sinaloa and Tamaulipas, entities with high drug trafficking activity.
I saw colleagues die just for practicing 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 undertake as an independent journalist, thus, I produced the video column Yo qué voy a saber with which I always sought to open the dialogue on issues that we generally do not like to talk about and land them without much ado.
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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