THE ongoing slow-motion Kanye West trainwreck continued today, with the antagonistic rapper dropping by the offices of tabloid news site TMZ for a bizarre live broadcast.
Speaking to interviewers who seemed unsure of how to handle the increasingly unstable star, West declared that America’s dark history of African-American slavery was in fact a “choice” by those who were held as slaves.
“For 400 years? That sound like a CHOICE. Like, you was there for 400 years, and it’s all of y’all? It’s like we’re mentally in prison. I like the word ‘prison’, because slavery goes too direct to the idea of blacks. It’s like, slavery — holocaust. Holocaust — Jews, slavery is blacks. Prison is something that unites us as one race - blacks and whites being one race,” he ranted.
Whatever you think of West’s recent political 180 (elsewhere in the same interview he enthused: “I just LOVE Trump, that’s my BOY!”), the statement “slavery was a choice” couldn’t go unchecked.
Later on, as West prowled the TMZ offices on camera, he asked those present if they agreed with him.
“Do you feel that I’m being free and I’m thinking free?” he asked.
Silence — until one TMZ staffer, Van Lathan, stood up from his desk.
Speaking to interviewers who seemed unsure of how to handle the increasingly unstable star, West declared that America’s dark history of African-American slavery was in fact a “choice” by those who were held as slaves.
“For 400 years? That sound like a CHOICE. Like, you was there for 400 years, and it’s all of y’all? It’s like we’re mentally in prison. I like the word ‘prison’, because slavery goes too direct to the idea of blacks. It’s like, slavery — holocaust. Holocaust — Jews, slavery is blacks. Prison is something that unites us as one race - blacks and whites being one race,” he ranted.
Whatever you think of West’s recent political 180 (elsewhere in the same interview he enthused: “I just LOVE Trump, that’s my BOY!”), the statement “slavery was a choice” couldn’t go unchecked.
Later on, as West prowled the TMZ offices on camera, he asked those present if they agreed with him.
“Do you feel that I’m being free and I’m thinking free?” he asked.
Silence — until one TMZ staffer, Van Lathan, stood up from his desk.
