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TexasTowelie

(112,249 posts)
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 03:48 AM Aug 2018

Kanye West apologizes for saying slavery was 'a choice'

Kanye West apologized Wednesday on a Chicago radio station for calling slavery a "choice," and he broke down on air over an old friend.

"I don't know if I properly apologized for how that slave comment made people feel, so I want to take this moment right now to say that I'm sorry for hurting, I'm sorry for the one-two effect of the MAGA hat into the slave comment," West told 107.5 WGCI radio in his hometown.

"And I'm sorry for people who felt let down by that moment, and also I appreciate you guys giving me the opportunity to talk to you about the way I was thinking and what I was going through and what led me to that," he said.

West also addressed a question that left him speechless on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" about why he feels President Donald Trump cares about black people. He later tweeted he wasn't stumped by the question and didn't much appreciate how the show cut awkwardly to a commercial break after his extra-long pause.

Read more: https://www.richmond.com/news/latest-news/ap/kanye-west-apologizes-for-saying-slavery-was-a-choice/article_7724f324-e0cc-5776-99a6-01f8469aeee4.html

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Kanye West apologizes for saying slavery was 'a choice' (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 2018 OP
he had no problem interrupting a 20 year old trying to accept an award JI7 Aug 2018 #1
He went to a level of below stupidity Cha Aug 2018 #2
He is a mess. Clueless. Nt USALiberal Aug 2018 #3
DUMB!!! hatrack Aug 2018 #4
we were taught that slavery pretzel4gore Aug 2018 #5
can this moron get any more clueless? spanone Aug 2018 #6

JI7

(89,252 posts)
1. he had no problem interrupting a 20 year old trying to accept an award
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 03:51 AM
Aug 2018

if he wanted to he could have answered the question . but as seen in this article he has no real answer for it.

Cha

(297,314 posts)
2. He went to a level of below stupidity
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 03:59 AM
Aug 2018

and he's not doing anything to get himself out.

Oh and Tough Shit Jimmy's show went to a commercial. Your Fucking Fraud cares only about himself and that not very much.. just look at him.

 

pretzel4gore

(8,146 posts)
5. we were taught that slavery
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 08:23 AM
Aug 2018

(forced, unpaid labour) was not that bad, unless the slaver was a gopig type: most slaveowners were nice people....we were taught that poor people were lazy, and the 1st nations were savages (tell that to 35million bison, or hundreds million other animals who lived very well in the americas during the Injun's watch!) gorillas were monsters as were sharks and wolves and ...the point is the majority of people believe what they were taught, and the nazipoohs made sure the text books went easy on the facts.

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