I think (like almost everything in life) you can find the nuances in kanye's statements. First off I will start with the critiques kanye has a platform that gives him responsibility of his words. Yes it is his right to speak freely however his words have a lot of power so true maturity would require that he fully form his opinions before spouting them so openly. That is his burden as an influential person who is privileged to live in a way that the majority of the world is not able to.

Secondly i believe his statement was meant to mean the idea of mental control before Kanye made that five alarm slavery is a choice statement he said that from birth we are taught how to think showing an example of the mental control society has formed us into and through current examples such as religion, political parties, nationalism etc we see how poisonous this type of thinking is to enlightenment and unity. When you are controlled with fear you seemingly have no choices it's highly effective to control someones thoughts and actions. Which again is made evident in how everyone seems to have very similar life paths high school➡️college➡️9-5➡️retirement at 65+. our minds are excellent at creating insurmountable obstacles that make it harder to break free from this illusion. We create cycles of thought that imprison us whether it's the thought that racism disadvantages us or other cultures are disadvantaging us as "real americans".

Finally what i see kanye's end goal is to help us see that we can find more commonalities than differences if we changed our way of thinking. If you refuse to see someone else's perspective and find yourself putting the full blame on them know that this is projecting as is a clear sign you are not aware of yourself and what is your purely formed opinion and one expertly formulated by societies method of control. Change your perspective of others and be more concerned with connecting and learning from others to promote growth. That is the greatest lesson Kanye sought to teach, hopefully he can reflect and realize better ways of promoting this important lesson.