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Kanye West has explained his thinking behind his decision to dress himself and several Black models in “White Lives Matter” shirts earlier this week.
West, who legally modified his title to “Ye,” informed Fox News host Tucker Carlson that he wore it as a result of “it’s the obvious thing.”
“The answer to why I wrote ‘White Lives Matter’ on a shirt is because they do,” West stated in the course of the interview that aired Thursday.
The artist/designer/provocateur has been dealing with backlash since he sported the shirt throughout a shock catwalk occasion held throughout at Paris trend week.
West recalled a textual content dialog he had along with his dad in regards to the controversial assertion.
“I said, ‘I thought the shirt was a funny shirt; I thought the idea of me wearing it was funny.’ And I said, ‘Dad, why did you think it was funny?’ He said, ‘Just a Black man stating the obvious.’” West informed Carlson.
When Carlson pushed West on why he thinks individuals think about {that a} controversial assertion, West stated that it’s as a result of he’s not performing in a method the media thinks he ought to act.
“Because the same people that have stripped us of our identity and labeled us as a color, have told us what it means to be Black,” West stated.
The Anti-Defamation League categorizes the phrase “White Lives Matter” as a “hate slogan” utilized by White supremacist teams, together with the Ku Klux Klan.
It’s simply the newest incident that has resulted in criticism, and West additionally addressed a few of that.
In 2016, he met with then President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York City, and two years later West visited him at the White House and wore a MAGA hat.
Both of these occasions precipitated main outrage, and West informed Carlson he “started to really feel this need to express myself on another level when Trump was running for office and I liked him.”
He stated he was informed by a number of individuals “that if I said I liked Trump that my career would be over, my life would be over.”
“They said stuff like people get killed for wearing a hat like that, they threatened my life,” West stated. “They basically said I would be killed for wearing the hat.”
The Grammy winner additionally coated different matters, together with being anti-abortion, his ex-wife Kim Kardashian and his ideas on increased training within the Black group.
The dialog was half of a bigger interview featured on Carlson’s present. More of the interview will probably be aired Friday night, Carlson stated.