Posted on 05/03/2018 6:46:39 AM PDT by servo1969
A petition calling on the sports apparel brand Adidas to drop rap superstar Kanye West over comments he made about slavery has reached more than 4,500 signatures.
“When you hear about slavery for 400 years. For 400 years?! That sounds like a choice. Like, you were there for 400 years and it’s all of you all? Like, we’re mentally in prison,” West said in an interview with TMZ on Tuesday.
The comments sparked outrage from the likes of CNN’s Don Lemon and Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson, with infuriated activists even starting a petition urging Adidas to cut all ties with West.
“While Kanye can live safely in his multimillion-dollar castle, the rest of black America is continually marginalized and subject to unjust laws and treatment. Some even die because this behavior is so ingrained in our society,” the petition reads.
“Kanye West has a right to free speech, and he has the right to spout lies and misinformation and misplaced opinions — but we as consumers have the right to fight back against this type of dangerous propaganda.”
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For adidas, this is sort of a damned if you do. damned if you don’t scenario.
“Mentally”
The key word.
Based on this petition and many of the reactions from black activists, it seems they are proving Kanye right.
Yeah, like everybody knows how evil we Republicans are. Like me and my kind like to go out every night and rough up some black boys just to keep ‘em behaving. Kanye needs to get his mind right. Got to keep ‘em all on the Democrat plantation. Can’t let no black boy go thinking for himself.
I think your error is in assuming the signers of this petition can read and understand a simple sentence.
Obviously they can’t. Rational thought is completely out of the question, too.
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Hillary Clinton coin the phrase RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY - she was almost correct. Except it is the LEFT that has a conspiracy against anyone that stands against them.
A PHd paper could be written about the way the left has responded to Kenye. Attacks from every direction, almost as if they were co-ordinated, like a conspiracy.
If Adidas caves so will Kayne. Too much money.
Meeza says u do what massa tell u to.
One black man saying he wants to think for himself has got the entire left wetting their collective pants. Who knows what Kanye’s real goals in all this are, but he just exposed the left’s hypocrisy and they’re desperate to put the genie back in the bottle that he released!
Blacks are too blinded by their ignorance to see Kanye is right! Their Massas in the Democrat Party have almost complete control over them!
If after more than 100 years following a Civil War about it and an Emancipation Proclamation to boot they still consider themselves 'slaves' then its their desire to be slaves.
Yep. Can't have that; gotta sic the Thought Police on him.
I don't like his 'Rap".
I'm not sure if I'd like him.
I don't care ... I really like his turn toward independent, rational thought. Welcome aboard, Kanye, and bring your 'brothers' with you.
Earl Butz was right!
Assassination mode. Too predictable.
If Adidas caves we’ll see if he’s really learned anything. Either stand your ground or stand down. That said, he must have known this was coming.
slavery ended over 150 years ago, unless you count those alive today who are still slaves to their own ignorance and self loathing.
I don’t even know who this guy is but it’s hilarious and tragic what the left has made of one man voicing his right to speech on the left leaning plantation.
Kanye West is finding out what happens if you’re black and you try to leave the Democrat plantation.
They can’t just disagree with him, they have to destroy him. Deplorable.
4500?? That’s all? Not much of a petition.
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