Kanye believe in free thinking?

Island Park, L.I.: Believe me, I am not a fan of Kanye West but I understand what he was trying to say when he said that slavery was a choice. He is not talking about hundreds of years ago. He is talking about now. If people keep claiming to be victims of slavery so many hundreds of years later, then that is a choice. Kanye would rather see you stop being a victim and put slavery in the past as a part of history and leave it there. He doesn’t want what happened so many years ago to keep you down today and if it still does, then it is your choice.

You have many other choices today that weren’t available hundreds of years ago. Choose those, don’t continue to be victims. And don’t twist Kanye's words to continue perpetrating the slavery injustice.

Rose Johnson Bronx: Kanye West is lost in space. Danger, Kanye, danger! Corinne Basabe

West to the future

Warwick, N.Y.: Kanye doesn’t deal with the past. I think he was saying so many people today accept slavery by choosing to live in ignorance, poverty, addiction and violence! Choose freedom instead. The choice is yours. Millions of African-Americans have chosen education and hard work to make a good life for themselves. Stop using the past as an excuse. Shame on TMZ and all the other news people or puppets who are so fast to put down what they don’t understand. Free thinking! Raymond Klett

Kanye Worst

Raleigh, N.C.: My dad said you can’t talk sense to a fool no matter how hard or many times you try. Nonsense is all they understand. Kanye West is a fool, who hates being black, is trapped by a white witch and loves a fascist, racist who would spit or defecate on him rather than state he loves him. It is sad when you sell out your race, culture and humanity for a dollar. Kanye is not unique. Ben Carson and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas are just two others that come to mind.

Robin Grant Miller Place, L.I.: Re “Fire and fury” (May 3): First of all, let’s start out by stating this young black man just forgot to mention he was arrested twice — no matter how minute or trivial. It states many times on the application everything must be disclosed. Second, to try to correlate a white former department head’s son getting his job back to this blatant lie is just another way of someone trying to use race as a way to go around the facts. The sad part is the city will cave in and give this so-called minority his shot when it literally will not give it to a more deserving candidate. How about we just start giving the job to the best person out there without taking anything into consideration besides his or her background or test score and stop lowering our standards so we can have as many minorities that pass the test with lower marks and get the job before a Caucasian?

Tony Randazzo

Renewing the city

Manhattan: I do not begrudge the city the extra $1.5 million it is spending for renewable diesel (“Renewable diesel soon to power 1,000 city vehicles — including some garbage trucks,” May 1). It’s the other 29,000 city vehicles, still spewing fossil fuels, that have me worried. To say nothing of the 4,000-plus MTA buses. Michael Snisky of the Department of Buses touts his fleet’s engine technology, which is keeping the air “as clean as possible.” But it is time for Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio to look beyond the “possible” to the necessary, and to move faster on renewable fuels, offshore wind power and electric-powered buses. Elizabeth Poreba

Right time to move

Bronx: To Darren Martin, exObama aide: If someone moved into my building at 11 on a Friday evening and disturbed the peace and tranquility that is expected at that time, they could be any color of the spectrum. I would be incensed. Your “life and work” should not infringe on your neighbors. Skin color has nothing to do with being a considerate neighbor. I hope you apologized to the resident living below you.

Beverly Brodowsky

Crocodile tears over Wolf wit

Lindenhurst, L.I.: For all the hyperventilating over Michelle Wolf’s routine at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, yeah, the jokes were a little stale and tedious but not nearly as one-sided as you all seem to think. She took shots at both sides, and justified all of it with her final observation about how the news media itself gave us Donald Trump by breathlessly covering every divisive, ignorant and uninformed statement he’s made, and continues to make while profiting mightily. All the self-congratulatory First Amendment “champions” need to look at their own hypocrisy instead of their bottom lines and realize this is how people get the government they deserve. True journalism is the casualty here, and all the righteous indignation from both sides won’t wipe that smirk off Trump’s face. Scott Daly

Daily no-News

South Hempstead, L.I.: The best employment figures since 2000, but all the media wants to concentrate on is Stormy Daniels. The media is so consumed by its hatred of President Trump that it doesn’t have any idea what the public really cares about. The News used to have a circulation of over a million. Now it’s less than a quarter of that. Take a look at yourselves and maybe you’ll figure out why. Michael Quane

Truth in awards

Manhattan: Since there are at least 11 far-sighted Republicans who are lobbying for President Trump to receive the Nobel Prize for Peace (thus, getting even with former President Obama) why not go all the way and nominate Scott Pruitt as the Environmentalist of the Year? Louis Phillips

Future headline

Manhattan: Democrats: “President Trump is colluding with North Korea to win the 2020 election.” Kevin O'Brien

Koch always had it right

Middle Village: Ed Koch summed it up best some 30 years ago when he said of Donald Trump: “I wouldn’t believe him even if his tongue was notarized.”

John Puglese

Which king is Trump?

Las Vegas: I loved Frank Montoya’s article (“Winter is Coming,” May 3). However, I might add that Trump could also be the Mad King in “Game of Thrones.” The Night King is also a good analogy. Valerie Martini

Still on the job

Manhattan: S.E. Cupp refers to Mary Reinholz — aka the “third woman” to speak out about an unwanted sexual advance by Tom Brokaw — as a “former reporter” (“NBC women’s big Brokaw error,” May 2): In fact, Mary is a regular freelance contributor to The Villager. Things Mary likes to write about, and has written about in the past for us, include Sheldon Silver’s trials, veteran feminists and their responses to Trump and the #MeToo movement, the yippies, Hells Angels, Lynne Stewart and anything involving Ron Kuby. Lincoln Anderson, editor in chief, The Villager

Language lessons Giant mistake

TMZ Manhattan: Dear Voicer William Lindauer” “Uber” is not “a favorite Nazi word”; it is simply a common German word. (I have my suspicions about this letter anyway, since, “a” and “favorite” are frequently used by the Klan.)

Richard Helfer Dumont, N.J.: To Voicer Gerard Briggs: It pains me to say this because I can’t stand Mike Lupica, and I never read his articles. So based on your letter it sounds like he was against the Giants’ draft choice. So here comes the painful part: I agree with him. (I think I’m going to be sick). OK, I am not a fan of drafting a running back that high in the draft, especially when you have a 37-yearold QB. I love Eli; this is not an indictment of him. He’s 37 and they need a plan for the future. It might be one year, it might be five. Remember the Giants’ firstround running back picks? Butch Woolfolk and Ron Dayne. How did they work out? Why would you use such a high pick on a player whose shelf life is about six or seven years? This seems like a pick from a 67-year-old GM who wants to win right away because he doesn’t want to do this too long. The future be damned.

Rich Russo