WHAT YOU MAY BE SURPRISED TO KNOW ABOUT KANYE -- HE HAD A PROMINENT MALE ROLE MODEL WITHIN HIS REACH AND NOT ALL BLACKS HAVE REJECTED HIM
During a visit to the White House last Thursday, Kanye West left the impression that his out-of-control behavior was due to a lack of "male energy" as he trumpeted his support for Pres. Donald Trump, who is viewed as a threat by the majority of African Americans. It may come as a surprise to know that Wests' maternal grandfather, Portwood Williams, Sr. was a well-known Civil Rights leader from Oklahoma City who led a tight-knit Christian family. His late mother, Dr. Donda West and her father were very close, which she wrote about in "Raising Kanye: Life Lessons From the Mother of a Hip-Hop Superstar.” "Some would say it was blasphemous the way Grandmother Williams worshiped her husband, the way my dad worshiped me, and the way I worship Kanye. But I just call it plain-old heartfelt, couldn't-help-it-if-you-tried-to love,” Donda West wrote. "In my family there is a legacy of that kind of love. And there was no shortage of that in our household...