Kanye West under fire after saying slavery was a choice
Source: CBS News
Kanye West is under fire for comments he made about slavery during a sit-down with TMZ on Tuesday. During the interview, the 40-year-old rapper touched on his love for President Trump, his recent tweets, and one point said slavery "sounds like a choice."
"When you hear about slavery for 400 years. For 400 years?! That sounds like a choice. Like, you were there for 400 years and it's all of you all? You know, it's like we're mentally in prison. I like the word prison 'cause slavery goes too -- too direct to the idea of blacks," he said in the interview. "So prison is something that unites us as one race, blacks and whites being one race. We're the human race."
Tanisha Ford, associate professor of Africana studies and history at University of Delaware, joined CBSN on Tuesday to discuss the impact of his remarks.
"Those comments show how completely out of touch Kanye is at this moment in time, and I think they would have his mother Donda West, a former college professor, enraged," Ford said.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kanye-west-under-fire-after-saying-slavery-was-a-choice-2018-05-01/
There's more further into the article..... After the interview Kanye asked the TMZ newsroom if he was 'thinking free' and TMZ reporter Van Lathan told him it sounded more like the absence of thought.
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...Otherwise This Clown Would Be Nothing.
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Remember that Kanye is the husband of Kim Kardashian, who has shown him a thing or two about becoming rich and famous by being rich and infamous. Also keep in mind that Kanye has fired his manager and lawyer because they refused to work for him exclusively. That means he has to come up with his own marketing strategy for his forthcoming albums and tour, which he has apparently done by looking at who's dominating the urban record charts.
That honor currently belongs to Tekashi 69, who has managed to chart five singles while serving probation on an underage sex charge, taunting street gangs, publicly humiliating the mother of his child by entertaining groupies, and having a concert appearance postponed at a venue where a member of his entourage fired a gun. And on the distaff side, there's Cardi B, who's charted eight singles and a gold album while being engaged, knocked up, and blatantly cheated on by the same guy. But what they -- and Kim, for matter -- really have in common is the hundreds of thousands of fans and detractors alike who eagerly consume their daily drama on social media like mother's milk.
It's been two years (and a hospitalization for a nervous breakdown) since Kanye's last album. But apparently he's ready and willing to get back in the ring, and apparently he doesn't care what people say about him as long as they are saying SOMETHING about him -- and the more controversial, the better, since that apparently translates into sales.
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along with any prior "filthy rich" 'issues'. Totally assimilated. 
