Kanye West is at it once more.
By now you recognize that the 45-year-old rapper has been dealing with the implications of his antisemitic feedback and problematic habits as a number of manufacturers and corporations have severed ties with him – together with Adidas. He additionally at present faces a $250 million lawsuit from George Floyd’s household for spreading the false declare he died from fentanyl and never from former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pinning his knee into his neck for greater than 9 minutes.
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Now, Kanye has as soon as once more addressed his string of controversies. Speaking with paparazzi on Friday night time, the Yeezy designer tried to apologize for pushing the conspiracy idea about George’s demise:
“When I see that video as a Black person, it hurts my feelings. And I know that police do attack [sic] and that America is generally racist. And I understand that when we got to say Black Lives Matter, the idea of it made us feel good together as a people. Now, afterwards there was some things where the money went in order to push us to the Democratic vote.”
He then continued to dig himself right into a deeper gap by then evaluating dropping his Adidas deal and dealing with backlash for his latest actions by likening it to having “a knee on my neck.” Yeah, Kanye actually mentioned that.
“So when I questioned the death of George Floyd, it hurt my people. I want to apologize. Because God has shown me by what adidas is doing, by what the media is doing, I know what it feels to have a knee on my neck right now. So thank you God for humbling me and letting me know how it really felt. Because how could the richest Black men ever be humbled other than to be made to not be a billionaire in front of everyone off a comment.”
And his feedback didn’t finish there. Kanye additionally touched on his show of antisemitism once more, first saying he “didn’t realize I could be antisemitic until I read a definition of antisemitism.” The father of 4 continued:
“I didn’t realize it was antisemitic to say I have a Jewish attorney, I have a Jewish record label, I have a Jewish contractor.”
And once more, as a substitute of acknowledging how dangerous his statements have been, Kanye simply doubled down on the disgusting antisemitic trope and conspiracy that Jewish individuals management the media and leisure trade. When requested if he was retracting his earlier remarks, the Stronger artist pulled up a picture of a spreadsheet of the “red media” – who he claims are the Jewish executives working the businesses. WTF?! He mentioned:
“I’m being humbled… by me being burned to the flesh every single day, it’s actually proving what I have to say.”
Kanye additionally claimed his psychological well being points have been “misdiagnosed” by a “Jewish doctor” that “would have had me on medication right now,” including:
“If I was on medication right now, then one pill could have been swapped out and it would have been Prince or Michael Jackson all over again. But because I didn’t take the medication, I am able to speak to you guys clear of thought and transparently.”
Unsurprisingly, Kanye has not realized his lesson even after dealing with penalties for his actions. Thoughts on the newest on this controversy? Sound OFF within the feedback under.
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