2020’s US Presidential Election Is A Referendum On Black Lives In America

Kanye, Cory, Kamala, Donald, and Uncle Joe have one distressing question to answer

There’s a tremendous chance that, with the full support of Donald Trump, GRAMMY-winning musician and supreme cultural agitator Kanye West will run for, and win the Republican Party nomination for President of the United States in 2020. As well, it’s entirely possible that a ticket comprised of Joe Biden and first term junior United States Senator from California Kamala Harris will gain the Democratic Party’s nomination. Ultimately, in an electoral cycle involving two very influential African-Americans in the wake of four years of someone regarded as a racist firebrand running the country, the referendum that ultimately decides the election is not one about education, gender equality, taxation, or health care. Instead, it’s something far more intriguing, and entirely distressing, at play:

Do black people have an ascendant place in modern America?

At present, ten times out of ten, Kanye Omari West is likely to have — for a winning percentage of voting Americans in a democratic election — the best answer to this question.

By this question, I do not mean ascendancy attached to near-impossible and now perpetual…