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Kanye West: 'More Outrage Over Me Wearing a Trump Hat' than Black-on-Black Crime
Breitbart ^ | May 1 2018 | by CHARLIE SPIERING

Posted on 05/01/2018 6:04:40 PM PDT by ethom

Rap superstar and culture critic Kanye West accused many in the black community of hypocrisy by focusing more of their outrage on white violence against black people or his decision to wear a Donald Trump campaign hat than the problems in black communities. “Black people have a tendency to focus and march when a white person kills a black person or wears a hat, but when it’s 700 kids being killed in Chicago it’s O.K.,” Kanye West said during a lengthy and wide-ranging interview with TMZ boss Harvey Levin on Tuesday.

The Grammy-winning rapper-producer’s words infuriated Van Lathan, a black reporter at the TMZ office who said Kanye was lying, pointing to people in those communities working to improve them.

“There’s been more focus and more marches about whites killing blacks than kids in Chicago killing each other,” West continued. “Ninety percent of black people being killed are killed by other blacks.”

Indeed, to Kanye’s point, according to the FBI’s latest annual “Crime in the United States” report, 90 percent of black Americans killed in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 were killed by blacks.

Lathan continued shouting at the rapper, some of which was censored, prompting West to walk across the room to give him a hug.

“I love you, bro,” he said. “I am sorry I hurt you with my words.”

“Bro you gotta be responsible, man … your voice is too big,” Lathan replied.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: bellcurve; chicago; demplantation; harveylevin; illinois; kanyewest; tmz; vanlathan
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

One of the Crip leaders has already tweeted for Kanye to be taken out. Daz Dillinger.. Snoop’s cousin. What a thug.


61 posted on 05/01/2018 7:56:48 PM PDT by Shortstop7
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To: Alberta's Child

LOL. Maybe he’ll join here someday. :D


62 posted on 05/01/2018 7:57:43 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: ethom

Nobody cares about black-on-black crime, not the left, not the right, not whites not blacks not anybody else.

Genuine caring would be marked by persistent interest in solutions, and we have decades of historical record to show no one is all that interested in solutions to this particular problem.


63 posted on 05/01/2018 8:48:46 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 0)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Thanks ethom.

64 posted on 05/01/2018 9:01:42 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: ethom
“Bro you gotta be responsible, man … your voice is too big,” Lathan replied.

So... sharing facts is irresponsible if too many black people might hear those facts. Wow.

65 posted on 05/01/2018 9:12:57 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: waterhill

I’m with you - prayers for his safety...


66 posted on 05/01/2018 9:19:04 PM PDT by GOPJ (Time to rethink deep state traitors AND the organizations they've infiltrated.)
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To: Ken H

FUD is real


67 posted on 05/01/2018 9:23:44 PM PDT by CJ Wolf (Tag, you're it.)
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To: ethom

Holy Shiite. I had a very low opinion of Kanye, very low. And he seems to be understanding the whole plantation dem thing that many AA folks just do not see. He gets credit for that. Maybe being a father woke him up?


68 posted on 05/01/2018 9:30:37 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Sarah Barracuda

The Hannah Bell murder was probably not lost on Kanye at this point. I don’t know what opened his eyes but I can only hope there are other brave black celebs willing to dip their toe into the waters of free thinking. I don’t care if they are conservatives or libertarians or liberals, as long as they dare see the truth about the leftist chains they’ve been wearing by choice.


69 posted on 05/01/2018 9:33:28 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: ethom

Holy moley. What does he have for breakfast? I want to buy it and spread it all over la.


70 posted on 05/01/2018 9:36:17 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: ethom

Damn he makes sense


71 posted on 05/01/2018 9:36:55 PM PDT by wardaddy (Reward for young buck goes by Kanye fancies hisself a poet...if seen contact his overseer@DNC.org)
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To: CJ Wolf

“FUD is real”

What do you mean?


72 posted on 05/01/2018 10:18:33 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: Ken H

Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt are real and are great reasons to Motivate, Control and ‘Dominate Successfully. FUD is not an illusion but real and is a fateful tactic in propaganda. Recognize it.


73 posted on 05/01/2018 10:26:42 PM PDT by CJ Wolf (Tag, you're it.)
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To: CJ Wolf

Agree. That was actually the point of this post => http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3651940/posts?page=37#37


74 posted on 05/01/2018 10:30:39 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: Ken H

And I was agreeing with your post. :-)


75 posted on 05/01/2018 10:35:27 PM PDT by CJ Wolf (Tag, you're it.)
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To: GOP Poet

Sounds like the guy is getting ‘’woke’’.


76 posted on 05/01/2018 10:48:46 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: CJ Wolf

Got it now. Thanks:)


77 posted on 05/01/2018 10:49:40 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Or Bill Cosby.


78 posted on 05/01/2018 10:50:37 PM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: ethom

Dems and their media lapdogs do not care if blacks kill eachother, they only care about their blacks leaving the plantation.


79 posted on 05/01/2018 11:35:35 PM PDT by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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To: ethom

Such old news. Better than never but a recent #NewWoke.


80 posted on 05/02/2018 12:21:01 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is what I read in the papers.)
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