>i’m just surprised that West didn’t call himself a
>Revolutionary Black Prophet or whatever after that paragraph.

but here he is playing at 'let me put myself up on a pedestal for a minute' - the complete lack of self-awareness is just amazing.

"The disagreements between Coates and I are substantive and serious. It would be wrong to construe my quest for truth and justice as motivated by pettiness. Must every serious critique be reduced to a vicious takedown or an ugly act of hatred? Can we not acknowledge that there are deep disagreements among us with our very lives and destinies at stake? Is it even possible to downplay career moves and personal insecurities in order to highlight our clashing and conflicting ways of viewing the cold and cruel world we inhabit?"