Earlier today, Kanye West made waves again, this time with comments about slavery:
Kanye thinks slavery was "a choice" pic.twitter.com/zoPIDC8cSd
— jordan (@JordanUhl) May 1, 2018
https://twitter.com/DevanJJoseph/status/991403628706652161
Unsurprisingly, that didn’t go over well with a lot of people:
he needs a doctor
— ROSIE (@Rosie) May 1, 2018
I totally see where you're going with that line of thought Kanye. Those shackles they wore must have been purely ornamental.
— Kaspar Nguyen (@kaspar_nguyen) May 1, 2018
Already deleted all his music from my phone. If I had any Kanye CDs, I’d be burning them now.
— Colby (@21sts1) May 1, 2018
But Kanye’s trying to clarify his remarks as best he can:
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/991459400018624512
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/991459902718492682
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/991460425538547712
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/991460564839772160
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/991460675871375360
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/991461233474682880
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Update:
Kanye’s got more to say:
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/991466055947071488
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the universe has a plan. I knew that TMZ would be awesome.
— ye (@kanyewest) May 1, 2018
we are programmed to always talk and fight race issues. We need to update our conversation.
— ye (@kanyewest) May 1, 2018
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/991466506725744642
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/991466590758518784
in school we need to learn how magic Johnson built his business not always about the past. Matter fact I've never even heard of a high school class that presents future ideas
— ye (@kanyewest) May 1, 2018
when the media masses and scholars talk about what started today. Here's a title …
the overground hell road
— ye (@kanyewest) May 2, 2018
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/991476958721556487
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