Let’s consider Kanye West

It’s a shame to see Kanye West labeled as “off the rails” for expressing an unpopular opinion about Donald Trump [“This rant? It’s Not Like the Others,” May 5]. It’s not hard to believe one of America’s favorite artists is becoming demonized for encouraging and participating in free thought, something not commonly found on Twitter.

Twitter allows the writer to have a direct line of communication with the president and feel like their voices are being heard. This becomes a problem when only a certain voice is allowed to exist peacefully without being deemed as a “play for publicity,” or how others have insisted, an issue of mental illness. Sierra Gadsby Bellflower

I don’t know what Clarence Thomas or Thomas Sowell or even Nat Turner, Frederick Douglass or Harriet Tubman might have to say on the subject of slavery being a choice, but I think had I been a slave I might not have seriously considered for a moment that I had chosen my condition. Ronald Webster Long Beach