Kanye West calls Black Lives Matter 'scam' after White shirt
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Kanye West called the Black Lives Matter movement a “scam” after wearing a White Lives Matter shirt to his surprise Yeezy fashion show.
“Everyone knows that Black Lives Matter was a scam now it’s over you’re welcome,” he wrote on his Instagram Story Tuesday morning.
The statement came after the fashion designer wore the headline-making top, which featured the pope’s face on the front, alongside just-as-controversial political commentator Candace Owens at Monday’s Paris Fashion Week presentation.
Some of the models in his show wore the same shirt emblazoned with “White Lives Matter” on the back, causing fans and celebrities to react on social media. Jaden Smith, who attended 45-year-old West’s show, left early upon seeing the messaging.
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He published the message Tuesday morning after his Yeezy show. kanyewest/Instagram
“I Had To Dip Lol,” the 24-year-old singer tweeted Monday.
“I Don’t Care Who’s It Is If I Don’t Feel The Message I’m Out,” he added. “Black Lives Matter.”
“Sending a “WHITE LIVES MATTER” t-shirt down a runway in Paris is literal insanity and no amount of gospel is getting that man through Heaven’s gate, I’m so sorry,” one person tweeted .
Another wrote , “mind you kanye was just calling kim [Kardashian] and kris [Jenner] the kkk 2 weeks ago and now he’s wearing a white lives matter shirt.”
West has yet to directly address the fashion choice, though he did remind everyone at his show that he cannot be controlled.
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“I am Ye, and everyone here knows that I am the leader,” he said at one point, referencing his new legal name . “You can’t manage me.”
When he wasn’t stirring up controversy and offense, his Season 9 line debuted an uplifting surprise — giving his daughter North West the opportunity to showcase her vocals.
Standing in the middle of the rotunda where the show was held, West and ex-wife Kardashian’s eldest child sang along to inspirational tunes interspersed with beats from The Fugees and Macklemore.
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Kanye West has been mentally ill his entire life. Literally. His dissing BLM can only help them.
Why do you consider him mentally ill John? Is it because he is black and does not share your particular views on politics and race?
That's where my money is.
Please explain why you think my remark "sounds pretty racist".
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Okay, I can go along with his having mental health issues, but of the huge list of sources you quoted above, the vast majority were from leftist liberal leaning sources so I question some of their veracity regarding conservatives. I have never been a a Kayne West fan and know very little about him. And quoting The View as a reliable source? That was pretty much over the top there.
Right wing fanatic Candace Owens looks like she's trying to get her hand down the front of his pants.
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Well, here we go again with the “ Kanye West does something wild and uncalled for” headlines. On Monday, Kanye West showcased his new Yeezy line at a YZY SZN 9 presentation in Paris. His choice of clothing? A longsleeved “White Lives Matter” shirt.
The live-streamed event saw the musician wearing the T-shirt as he laid back and recorded children (seemingly from his Donda Academy, along with his daughter North) walking around in a circle in all-black as they sang “You make forever.”
Oh, and conservative pundit Candace Owens even posed for a photo with West wearing a matching shirt with the slogan. White supremacists — such as the KKK and the Aryan Renaissance Society — have overtaken the “Black Lives Matter” phrase used by Black people protesting police brutality and reframed it. The Anti-Defamation League has categorized the phrase as a hate slogan.
According to Complex , several of the models from the YZY show also wore designs that featured the slogan on the runway, including a white long-sleeved shirt with the words “WHITE LIVES MATTER” printed on the back.
West doubled down on Instagram Tuesday morning, writing that “everyone knows that Black Lives Matter was a scam. Now its [sic] over. Youre [sic] welcome.”
While it’s unclear what message (if any) West was trying to make with his latest fashion choice, the rapper has been no stranger to controversy in the past few years — particularly when it comes to his political beliefs. He pledged his support for Donald Trump in 2018 and ran for president himself in 2020.
And when it comes to race relations, West previously drew tremendous ire for his 2018 flippant comments about the history of American slavery, in which he claimed it was a “choice.” “When you hear about slavery for 400 years: For 400 years, that sounds like a choice,” West said. “You was there for 400 years,” he added, “And it’s all of y’all?”
About the time he stood behind Trump , he told Jimmy Kimmel in 2018, “Just as a musician, African-American, a guy living out in Hollywood, everyone around me tried to pick my candidate for me. And then told me every time that I said I liked Trump that I couldn’t say that out loud or my career would be over.”
“It took me a year and a half to have the confidence to stand up and put on the hat, no matter what the consequences.”
You mean it's not a scam?
I'm curious as to what you think is a scam . Is MAGA a scam?
MAGA is a slogan not an organization. Weird you didn’t know that.
BLM.
Trying to distract from your own article I see.
You must be aware of all the money that has been extracted from suckers in the name of MAGA.
Not nearly as much as the BLM shysters took.
Top echelon BLM leadership buying multimillion dollar mansions for their own use using funds from donations for BLM from the public. Yep, that's scamming all right!
Amen!
Bullshit. The seed is about BLM.
Exactly!
BLM Buying Large Mansions in predominantly white neighborhoods.
the leaders are scumbags and sellouts.
Looks like somebody flagged your comment. I wonder who that could have been...
So they're scumbags and sellouts for buying property in white neighborhoods ?
Of course not! But usually when folks take donated money and use it to enrich or treat themselves rather than to serve the cause for which it was donated, other folks tend to stand up and call them scumbags or sellouts. Often it is those in the lower chapters of the same organization who are calling the leaders out on such matters and for their lack of honesty and transparency, while local programs suffer and see none of those donated funds. That is what has been happening in the BLM and related organizations for several years.
If one is to criticize Trump's fleecing of those donating in the name of MAGA (as some have here, including me), then why should those fleecing BLM supporters not be similarly criticized? In either case, it does not reflect well on the organization.
Kanye has bipolar disorder and it has deranged his mind.
It is a sad thing for us to all witness.
Remember when during a live telethon in 2005 for hurricane Katrina relief Kanye said, "George Bush doesn't care about black people?"
George Bush cared a whole lot more about Black People than MAGA does.
It's too bad Kanye doesn't focus more of his attention seeking energies to his music.
White nationalists still hate you Kanye. They always have, they always will.
Does he want their approval or is he just trolling the rest of us?