Kanye West compared himself to Emmett Till tonight, leaving me stunned.

Spending a Sunday evening with friends, of course we were talking politics. It was at the end of the evening in which I was in a fabulous mood — in spite of the dinner table conversation — that I learned that Kanye West had the hubris to compare himself to Emmett Till.

How dare you!!!! How could you steal his movie and make yourself the center of the headlines. How calculating of you, Kanye. How egotistical. How pathetic. You have been on an arrogant, self-destructive bender for weeks now, and with your back up against the wall, you have the nerve to compare yourself with the brutal lynching of Emmett Till.

We want to make Kanye insane. But this is a rational, vicious man who co-opts God to condone his actions. Kanye West is very dangerous.

Emmett Till and I share a birthday, and he lives VERY close to me, always in my psyche.