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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One of the Crip leaders has already tweeted for Kanye to be taken out. Daz Dillinger.. Snoop’s cousin. What a thug.
LOL. Maybe he’ll join here someday. :D
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.
Thanks ethom.
So... sharing facts is irresponsible if too many black people might hear those facts. Wow.
I’m with you - prayers for his safety...
FUD is real
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?
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.
Holy moley. What does he have for breakfast? I want to buy it and spread it all over la.
Damn he makes sense
“FUD is real”
What do you mean?
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.
Agree. That was actually the point of this post => http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3651940/posts?page=37#37
And I was agreeing with your post. :-)
Sounds like the guy is getting ‘’woke’’.
Got it now. Thanks:)
Or Bill Cosby.
Dems and their media lapdogs do not care if blacks kill eachother, they only care about their blacks leaving the plantation.
Such old news. Better than never but a recent #NewWoke.
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