This essay, on the debate over Kanye West’s comments about Donald Trump and about slavery, was the main part of my Observer column this week. (The column included also a short piece on the new working class.) It was published in the Observer, 13 May 2018, under the headline ‘Are rightwing black people traitors to the cause? Of course they’re not’. ‘I feel the pressure, under more scrutiny/ And what do I do? Act more stupidly’, rapped Kanye West on […]

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