If you stand with clowns don’t get mad whenever you wind up in a circus.
To borrow an outdated lyric from Kanye West, “it all fell down” on Thursday when the founding father of Donda Sports Agency was suspended from Twitter — once more — after he tweeted a picture of a swastika contained in the Star of David. Earlier within the day, West was on a podcast with Alex Jones — the right-wing nutjob who has to pay $1.4 billion to Sandy Hook households for saying it was a hoax — the place he stated, “I like Hitler.” On West’s 2013 album “Yeezus” he had a tune titled “Black Skinhead.”
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And if that wasn’t sufficient, earlier than the night time ended and West’s Twitter profile was placed on pause, he shook the sports activities world with an allegation that he as soon as caught Phoenix Suns level guard Chris Paul sleeping along with his ex-wife Kim Kardashian.
This is the person that Jaylen Brown and Aaron Donald stood subsequent to, because it took till the tip of October earlier than they lastly severed ties with Donda Sports. “In the past 24 hours, I’ve been able to reflect and better understand how my previous statements lack clarity in expressing my stance against recent insensitive public remarks and actions,” stated Brown, who days earlier than stated he “condemned” West’s anti-Semitic statements however was sticking with the company.
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“We do not feel our beliefs, voices, and actions belong anywhere near a space that misrepresents and oppresses people of any background, ethnicity, or race,” added Donald as he’d beforehand ignored West’s hateful habits and actions that had been draped in anti-Blackness, like when Ye wore a “White Lives Matter” t-shirt.
Thursday was additionally the day by which Donda Sports’ president was concerned in a standoff with police as regulation enforcement camped outdoors of Antonio Brown’s house ready to arrest him with a warrant for home violence prices — one thing that’s been a difficulty with him for years.
Donda Sports has been a clown present for the reason that day it was created as a result of Vaudeville acts who’re the faces of it. There’s nonetheless uncertainty round West’s Donda Academy — that when featured extremely ranked hoops prospects just some months in the past — because it’s arduous to recollect if the cult-like unaccredited college with $15,000 tuition remains to be working after it closed and reopened on the identical day. In October, Morehouse College (an all-male HBCU) canceled a basketball match it was internet hosting with Donda Academy resulting from West’s antics and pushback from alumni. I ought to know as a result of I’m one of many alums that pushed again in opposition to a college run by a person that stated that George Floyd was killed by fentanyl and never Derek Chauvin.
For these nonetheless clinging to some hope about what Donda Sports might be resulting from some bizarre allegiances or racial loyalty to West and Brown, hopefully, Thursday was the ultimate straw. There isn’t a tune or catch that West or Brown have been liable for that trumps (see what I did there) violence in opposition to ladies, anti-Blackness, hate, presumably snitching on Chris Paul, and love for Hitler and Nazis.
However, it’s not like we didn’t see this coming. This is similar pair that hilariously thought that they had sufficient cash to purchase the Denver Broncos earlier this yr. At the time, West was a newly minted billionaire who was months away from seeing his web price plummet, as Brown made round $80 million throughout his taking part in profession. The workforce finally bought for $4.65 billion, which was outdoors of West and Brown’s funds, to Rob Walton who’s price nearly $60 billion.
Over the previous few years, we’ve seen the habits of Kanye West and Antonio Brown go from odd to harmful. Thursday, Dec. 1, was the climax of two unhinged males who’ve been posing as figureheads of a shady sports activities company. Whether or not it’s by Brown’s antics on the subject of Tom Brady and his ex-wife, or West’s allegations in opposition to Chris Paul, each males have damaged locker room code, as they’ve confirmed themselves unworthy to society and their followers. Donda Sports ought to have by no means been created, and this week we acquired to see its finish.