By
James
Hirsen
Two
of the best-known names in popular culture, Kanye West and Beyonce Knowles, are
getting some heat for their astonishing insensitivity to victims of human
rights abuses. Both music superstars recently performed at the Kazakhstan
wedding of the grandson of country’s brutal dictator.
Kanye’s case, media reports indicate that he was given a $3 million check for
his entertainment services. A Kazakh billionaire and co-owner of one of the
country's largest banks reportedly paid the rapper. The amount Beyonce received
has not been reported.
Kanye
has been using race and class issues to peddle his latest album, "Yeezus,"
as illustrated with song titles such as "New Slaves" and "Black
Skinhead." He apparently has little concern for the oppressed people of
Kazakhstan.
It
was only a few months ago that Beyonce was embroiled in another human
rights-related controversy, when in the spring of 2013 she and husband Jay-Z
took a vacation to Cuba and allowed a repressive communist regime to use the
couple's celebrity for propaganda purposes. [more...]
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