Oh my, it gets worse: Kanye West Tweets Fake Harriet Tubman Quote After Saying Slavery Was 'A Choice

[hlthe2b]

Kanye West Tweets Fake Harriet Tubman Quote After Saying Slavery Was ‘A Choice’

There’s no evidence the activist said the quote, which reads, “I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kanye-west-tweets-fake-harriet-tubman-quote-after-saying-slavery-was-a-choice_us_5ae9ee44e4b00f70f0ee84fc

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The quote appeared just after West compared himself to both Tubman and Nat Turner, two Americans born into slavery who were pivotal in the fight for abolition in the 19th century.--snip--
There’s no hard evidence that Tubman actually said this quote. The fact-checking site Snopes has pretty much debunked it.

As Milton Sernett, professor emeritus of history at the Maxwell School and author of Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, and History told Ralph Luker of the History News Network: “My impression is that this is a late 20th-century quote from a fictionalized account of Tubman’s life. Whoever wishes to use the dubious quote as a political zinger ought to cite a reliable source.”

The fake Tubman quote obviously had Twitter up in arms... more at link

[grumpyduck]

1. Why is there so much stuff about Kanye West?

He's an entertainer, f'petessake.

[bettyellen]

2. Anyone who has a breakdown and makes an ass of themselves dominates- the media and Trump

Are both so fucking lazy.

[grumpyduck]

5. Wow, so that's the secret?

Cool. I'm gonna put on my thinking cap. How can I make an ass of myself?

[hlthe2b]

4. He's a major figure among African American celebrities so when he denies slavery impacts or excuses

while blaming African Americans for their own enslavement over more than 400 years of history--while also promoting Trump and his racist policies--it is kind of a big deal.

[eShirl]

6. He has TWO albums coming out later this month.

keepin' his name in the news & the internets

[hlthe2b]

8. well, some say there is no such thing as "bad publicity" but this surely would seem to test that...

[Tipperary]

9. Yep. I pretty much think that is exactly it. eom

[Tarheel_Dem]

10. Good question. I'm in favor of ignoring idiots, not promoting the release of their next project.

He's an attention whore, and doesn't care what kind of attention it is. I'm in favor of starving that particular beast.

[lunasun]

3. Yeezus WTH is his problem ?

[SunSeeker]

7. Has Trump taken over his Twitter account?!

[central scrutinizer]

11. Like Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman has done an amazing job

And is getting noticed more now

[underpants]

12. What happened to "shut up and sing"?

The RW media is all over this.