America’s new King of controversy, Kanye West, has opened another can of cankerworms after claiming that 400 years of slavery was a choice.
The rapper was a guest at TMZ headquarters made these incendiary remarks stating that for slavery to have lasted 400 years it seemed to be a choice.
He said; “When you hear about slavery for 400 years … for 400 years? That sounds like a choice,”
“Like, you was there for 400 years and it’s all of y’all? It’s like we’re mentally in prison. I like the word ‘prison’ because slavery goes too direct to the idea of blacks. It’s like slavery, Holocaust. Holocaust, Jews. Slavery is blacks. So, prison is something that unites us as one race. Blacks and whites being one race. We’re the human race,”
He then said to the room, “Do you feel that I’m feeling … do you feel that I’m being free and I’m thinking free?”
He was then shut down by a TMZ writer, Van Lathan, who was utterly disappointed and said; “I think what you’re doing right now is actually the absence of thought and the reason why I feel like that is because, Kanye, you’re entitled to your opinion,”
He added; you’re entitled to believe whatever you want, but there is fact and real world, real life consequence behind everything you just said. And while you are making music and being an artist and living the life that you’ve earned by being a genius, the rest of us in society have to deal with these threats to our lives. We have to deal with the marginalization that has come from the 400 years of slavery that you said for our people was a choice.
He also said that he was appaled and deeply hurt by Kanye’s remarks.
Kanye also spoke about Trump, calling the American President ‘his boy’ saying; “I have never been into politics. I just love Trump. That is my boy.
“It is like the media and the liberals and the echo chamber and all that is having the most sore loss of all time.”
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