MSNBC contributor and Princeton professor Eddie Glaude Jr. said Tuesday on “Deadline” that rapper Kanye West’s antisemitic comments were about the crisis of white identity.

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He added, “It’s also interesting to me, in that it’s the way in which whiteness is, ironically, even with Kanye is, consolidating itself. Because anti-semitism, alongside of white lives matter, all of this is bound up with a crisis of a particular kind of identity and how certain communities are the objects of it, the objects of the violence. {snip} It has something to do with a crisis of a particular understanding of white identity. You don’t have to be white to participate in it. {snip}”