re: Everyone is severely underestimating the “Kanye Effect”

I agree with you totally on this point. This is what Malcolm Gladwell called the Tipping Point.

I'm white and calling him a house n**#o and laughing about him and mocking him based solely on how a black person "should" behave made me exceptionally uncomfortable. I cannot imagine how I would feel if I were a black person. Kanye West isn't a political leader, but he is a cultural one.

His actions don't change all the hearts and minds of the 95 percent of black people who are currently Democrat voters but I do believe it is a tipping point and a sign of a trend. Particularly by black men who are historically maligned if not marginalized by the Democrat Party will not like seeing another man mocked for sharing his point of view.