Posted on 04/28/2018 1:39:52 PM PDT by ethom
The Roots member Questlove performed at the Concert for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama on Friday night and wore a T-shirt that read, “Kanye Doesn’t Care About Black People” and “This Is An Alt-Right Dream.” It's in the same font and style as Kanye’s iconic The Life of Pablo merch. Rolling Stone writer Jamil Smith shared a photo of Questlove wearing the shirt on his Instagram, adding that after Questlove showed his t-shirt, someone nearby said that “Kanye cares about record sales.”
The shirt is a response to this past week’s whirlwind of news stemming from Kanye West’s tweets. For the past several days, Kanye has been tweeting controversial viewpoints, including signaling support for conservative YouTuber Candace Owens and Donald Trump. Kanye tweeted photos of him wearing a Make America Great Again hat and wearing one, and although he said he doesn’t agree with Trump 100 percent, he made many pro-Trump arguments that many disagreed with.
Questlove's shirt refers to the Hurricane Katrina fundraiser that Kanye West did back in 2005, in which he famously declared that "George Bush doesn't care about black people."
Questlove’s t-shirt isn’t the first statement he has made on the issue. On Thursday, the Roots drummer went on BuzzFeed’s AM to DM to speak about his disappointment in Kanye. “For the first time yesterday, I thought I was done, and I went to sleep before midnight. I don’t like what I’m seeing,” he said.
AM to DM by BuzzFeed News ✔ @AM2DM "For the first time... I thought I was done [with Twitter]." Questlove reacts to Kanye's pro-Trump tweetstorm
9:57 AM - Apr 26, 2018 92 40 people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy Other people also tried to speak to Kanye. John Legend, for example, tried to speak to Kanye privately about the ramifications of someone with his platform being so supportive of someone as bigoted as Trump. Kanye “stood his ground” and published the text conversations on his Twitter. In a separate interview, Legend detailed the hypocrisy of Kanye and the MAGA movement getting in bed together. Other artists, including Chance the Rapper, signaled their disagreements with Kanye’s thinking.
Meanwhile, Trump thanked Kanye for his support and “good taste.” His campaign has even begun using Kanye as a fundraising tool.
The Concert for Peace and Justice commemorated the opening of the nation’s first lynching memorial, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, in Montgomery. In addition to the Roots, other headlining acts included Usher and Common.
Send out the field bosses with torches, whips and bloodhounds!
WINNING!
Pass the popcorn.
As I understand it Kanye apologized far saying those things about Bush. I’m sure Bush accepted it. Class. These other people? Talk to me.
this is just the beginning!
They are still trying to get him back to the plantation.
It must be tough growing up black, could you imagine if everyone in your life,School,Government, including the entertainment industry, constantly drilled it into your head that you were inferior, now worthy, incapable of independent thought, not smart enough to vote nor get an ID to vote and that your ONLY salvation against the evil White Capitalist society was to Stay on the Democrat Plantation and remain Dependent to the Political party of the very Slave Masters the Republicans freed you from?
OH NOES a black man thinking for himself, can’t have that..back to the plantation you go, back to picking that cotton, collecting that welfare, collecting those food stamps, and of course voting Democrat
But ... That ain' rasis'...
The socialist deep state has unleashed its subservient flying monkeys. Having controlled American blacks since 1964 with false promises and by raiding the public treasury in exchange for votes, their biggest fear is that Kanye West will awaken blacks from their decades-long stupor with his tens-of-millions of followers, and convincingly demonstrate that they’re all free-thinking souls and not specimens to be enslaved in the Democrat zoo.
Wow, Kanye’s a racist?
How’s it feel Kanye?
We’ve had to put up with that crap for decades.
I’ve read about Questlove. Very racist guy.
The lynchings continue of slaves.
Dem uppity Negroes leaving the Democrat plantation is a real problem.
Too funny - the whole flap started because he praised a Black woman - they need to get their stories straight...Kanye doesn’t care much for the Blacks that think they and all other Blacks belong on a lock-step plantation....
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