Kanye on TMZ: says Slavery ‘was a choice’, gets checked by black TMZ breh, tries to apologize

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Proud non-reader Kanye West turns author | Reuters

“Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed,” West said. “I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book’s autograph.

“I am a proud non-reader of books. I like to get information from doing stuff like actually talking to people and living real life,” he said.


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More problematic than kanye's cornish statement is the motivation behind it. Its serves no purpose other than attempting to appease white guilt. And all of his supposedly "free thinking" ideas seem to do the same thing...

on top of the slavery comment he also pulled out the good old right wing what about black on black crime comment. And the conservative talking point that blacks kill other blacks 90% of the time.. which ignores the fact that whites kill whites at about the same rate cause most murders are committed by people who know each other.

Kanye has been seeking white acceptance his whole life. He married a white woman so he could have non black kids. He worships white fashion designers and begs for their acceptance. Dyes his hair blond and wears blue contacts. This is a man who hates himself and hates being black.

He gets no pass. He has never been on the front lines of any black civil rights issue. I dont remember anything notable from him ever on the numerous police shootings of black men or black lives matter protest like like i have from his peers. He has been silent.

These are dangerous times when openly racist "ideas" like this are being peddled in the mainstream as a valid viewpoint. Factually it's inaccurate and morally its reprehensible. Like others have mentioned if he is such a free thinker let's see if he will say the same thing about Jews and the holocaust.
 

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More problematic than kanye's cornish statement is the motivation behind it. Its serves no purpose other than attempting to appease white guilt. And all of his supposedly "free thinking" ideas seem to do the same thing...

on top of the slavery comment he also pulled out the good old right wing what about black on black crime comment. And the conservative talking point that blacks kill other blacks 90% of the time.. which ignores the fact that whites kill whites at about the same rate cause most murders are committed by people who know each other.

Kanye has been seeking white acceptance his whole life. He married a white woman so he could have non black kids. He worships white fashion designers and begs for their acceptance. Dyes his hair blond and wears blue contacts. This is a man who hates himself and hates being black.

He gets no pass. He has never been on the front lines of any black civil rights issue. I dont remember anything notable from him ever on the numerous police shootings of black men or black lives matter protest like like i have from his peers. He has been silent.

These are dangerous times when openly racist "ideas" like this are being peddled in the mainstream as a valid viewpoint. Factually it's inaccurate and morally its reprehensible. Like others have mentioned if he is such a free thinker let's see if he will say the same thing about Jews and the holocaust.
Props breh. This is what an intelligent, poised summary of facts as a response to Kanye’s ignorant statements looks like.
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Something that has become clear to me in this crazy week of Kanye headlines:

As black men and women we never know when we will be openly discriminated next or when someone will act nice but in their mind has already written us of only because we are black

This is literally a direct result of slavery a.o. things all a result of white supremacists.

We look to the leaders in our culture to give us the voice we don’t have, to point out injustice and to make us proud.

What many people are missing - and I think Ebro pointed this out, I’m btw not an Ebro fan and he’s not even black but he was right - is not only is Kanye absolutely wrong, we are actually sad because we lost one of our voices, and him supporting those who keep us down makes us even more voiceless and feel even more powerless.

We’re not just angry, we’re also sad about it because especially Kanye had the cross-over appeal while still staying real in a way. Of course at first we saw him smashing Kim as the homie getting one of the baddest chicks around... now we know better. It’s sad to see one of our own try to destroy ans victim blame us like this..
 

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OMG... dude that was well put together and im not trying to be rude... but it just feels like u guys arent comprehending well....
all yall keep saying is how heinous and fukked up the options (choices) were...
but are u forgetting that there were ppl who made the opposite choice not to be a slave and rather be dead... or ppl risked there lives for freedom... they made a choice... u always have a choice....
Who knows what i would have done, ur right... but i do know there were individuals who made the choice i think i wouldve made... So at the end of the day... YES, U HAD A CHOICE TO BE A SLAVE...
Edit: and also, ur examples were disingenuous... u stopping the romans or ghengis Khan... is equivalent to u personally stopping slavery urself... im not saying that...
Im saying u as a person taken into captivity had an choice... stay in this situation and endure this shyt. have kids that will endure this shyt.... and watch my grandkids go thru this fukk shyt..................ORRRRRRRRRRR

There are some stupid motherfukkers that post here, but this right here is some high level stupidity.
So you are saying you would have killed yourself instead of being a slave?

Simple nikkas seem to forget about Christianity,

The only day slaves had off was Sunday when they had to go to church and the only book they could look at (not read) was the bible.
And what does the bible say?, killing one self was a mortal sin so forget the pearly gates of heaven for you, you are going straight to hell.


ETA: I am sure many others have said this, but he wouldn't say this about the Holocaust, he knows better. :sas2:
 

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I never rocked with Kanye, even when he supposedly on fire with hip hop heads. He had a smooth track here & there but I never found his music compelling or just had to get my hands on his albums. Dude has always been an overhyped, over dramatic attention whore at his core, so this type of stuff doesn't really surprise me. Regardless of his softshoeing, he's still black in a white nationalistic society, which means inevitably, his day will come. :yeshrug:
 

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More problematic than kanye's cornish statement is the motivation behind it. Its serves no purpose other than attempting to appease white guilt. And all of his supposedly "free thinking" ideas seem to do the same thing...

on top of the slavery comment he also pulled out the good old right wing what about black on black crime comment. And the conservative talking point that blacks kill other blacks 90% of the time.. which ignores the fact that whites kill whites at about the same rate cause most murders are committed by people who know each other.

Kanye has been seeking white acceptance his whole life. He married a white woman so he could have non black kids. He worships white fashion designers and begs for their acceptance. Dyes his hair blond and wears blue contacts. This is a man who hates himself and hates being black.

He gets no pass. He has never been on the front lines of any black civil rights issue. I dont remember anything notable from him ever on the numerous police shootings of black men or black lives matter protest like like i have from his peers. He has been silent.

These are dangerous times when openly racist "ideas" like this are being peddled in the mainstream as a valid viewpoint. Factually it's inaccurate and morally its reprehensible. Like others have mentioned if he is such a free thinker let's see if he will say the same thing about Jews and the holocaust.
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