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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Fatherless black boys join gangs and start shooting each other at 13. Fatherless white boys get drugged into a stupor, and become school shooters at 19 when the drugs wear off.
“Democrats always loved their black thugs murdering other blacks...”
You’d think they’d take the opposite stance, as well as condemn abortion, to preserve their voting base.
“FUD” - acronym for...?
There’s a lot of hypocritical outrage from the left. They are disgusting slobs who enjoy a free ride from the double standard.
See #73
I don’t care for Kanye’s music. I don’t care for the way people obsess over his wife and her whole clown car of a family. Kanye has shown in the past that he can be quite eccentric (meaning rich and crazy) so there’s no telling how long he will stick with his current ideas.
BUT.... and it’s a big one..... The fact that he does have such cultural influence with young people, and esp. black young people, means that for as long as he rides this horse he is exposing them to ideas they may have never before entertained. At the very least, a handful of them will change their notions of how life works. For that, I salute him.
harriet was a multiple felon, a law breaker.
There are probably more but keep mouth shut out fear
Where are all those tolerant libs?
Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt
Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt
I think someone sent Kanye a link to Free Republic.
Thanks civ
I honestly thought that I would never intentionally read any article mentioning or describing Kanye West (KW) in any way. I’ll admit to being astonished that among all the black entertainers in the industry, KW, whom I considered one of the most reprehensible and irrelevant voices in pop culture, is now apparently both educating himself and speaking and writing out BOLDLY against the DemonRat political entrapment and enslavement of the black community since the LBJ administration of the 1960’s. His famous quote: ‘We’ll have those N*****s voting Democrat for the next 200 years.’ When you have dolts like Maxine Waters and other DemonRat voices rising for KW to zip it, you know that his position is having an impact. Good on ya Kanye! Make sure you have plenty of armed security at all times and for your family...
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