CNN is under fire after one of the network’s contributors referred to Kanye West as Donald Trump’s “token negro.” During a panel hosted by Don Lemon, Tara Setmeyer compared ‘Ye to 45 and made some disparaging comments about mental health.
“He’s an attention whore, like the president,” she said. “He’s all of a sudden now the model spokesperson. He’s the token negro of the Trump administration. This is ridiculous and no one should be taking Kanye West seriously. He clearly has issues. He’s already been hospitalized. Not to trivialize mental health issues, [but] obviously Kanye has taken a turn in a very strange way.”
Another panelist, former Congressman Bakari Sellers, used the same language when describing Kanye.
“Kanye West is what happens when negroes don’t read,” he said. “And we have this now and now Donald Trump is going to use it and pervert and he’s going to have someone who can stand with him and take pictures.”
Former NFL star Herschel Walker has since called for Lemon to be fired.
Of course, Twitter lit up with reactions to the segment.
Check some of those out below.
They were absolutely right!…LOL
Kanye is the definition of what all people of color despise…an idiot with access to the president. His thoughts were all over the place in regards to time travel, welfare, color, maternal/paternal involvement, fashion, and power…none of that shit tied together. He made us as a whole look stupid. Im dont with this sambo ass, beg for mercy and relevance, jigaboo, token negro. Im pretty sure the whole entertainment biz is too and kim is next to bounce..mark the words.
Way to stay on the plantation
All jokes aside your annoying
I’M NOT OFFENDED AND NO OTHER SELF RESPECTING BLACK MAN SHOULD BE.
Spoken like a true house negro
HA U FUNNY. KEEP PRAISING FALSE IDOLS WHO SET OUR PEOPLE BEHIND. THE IRONY IS THAT YOU’RE SPEAKING ABOUT YOURSELF FOOL.
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Its all true when it comes to Kanye kissing up to orange man 45 its sickening to see but Kanye has a motive that benefits himself because he does not speak for Black America period I do believe he has mental issues we are watching him lose his mind in front of us this last act of eating and jig dancing for old 45 took the cake !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
spoken like a true house negro.
Spoken like a true kkklansman
You know the Klan was created by the Democrats right?
Spoken like a true house negro
Spoken like a true house negro. Way to stay on the plantation
Well if it’s true…
This is to the man using the name @ potcallingthekettleblack. You are soft. Fucking soft to be this emotional replying to everyone. Look yourself in the mirror#fullblownpussy
Theres plenty of room for you and your friends on the plantation. The irony going over your head is so delcious, just like all the other sheep on the Democratic Plantation. Nice and soft minded folks like you that dare not step off the sweet grass. Enjoy your life living on goverment handouts you spineless lamb being led to the slaughter by the Democratic sheep herders.
The plantation is where you’re stuck thinking that there’s this big difference among Democrats and Republicans what a fucking idiot
I will head to the plantation. But I still have a big dick for the madam inside.
Well it’s true. That particular point. Kanye doesn’t have a different opinion to all blacks, he’s just an example of a negro who doesn’t read. It’s more than just politics. Open your eyes. You’ll see.
I can’t fucking stand Kanye, but I’m not for how CNN handled this. Truth or falsehood be damned, that made me angry to watch mainly because of the audience they cater to. But that effeminate, neck bending “comedian” pissed me off worse. Probably was on his way to get his nails done.
Some people support kanye’s “free speech” but then get mad when others use the same “free speech” to react to kanye, it made you angry to watch while kanye made alot of people angry that were watching him
You talked yourself into a damn circle. What I saw from Kanye enraged me. Why? Because he was full of shit and didn’t do what he was supposed to be there to do (he couldn’t anyway because he didn’t prepare, and he didn’t prepare because he’s full of shit). What I saw from CNN enraged me. Why? Because the shit was apparently humorous to them and this is no laughing matter. What I saw from this so called comedian made me shake me head with his “Hol’ up wait a minute…” feminine ass attempt at scolding. Cleared that up for you. Nothing is free. Everything has a price and consequences, welcome to adulthood.
Don Lemon is a piece of shit
Don Lemon is a human piece of shit
So a bunch of dumb negro male Republicans who voted for Trump (13% of negro males during the election) and a bunch of manipulative white Republicans who say worse about black people on a regular basis on their racist propaganda outlets like Faux Lies, Breitbart, The New York Post, the National Review, etc formulated a “backlash” against black people on CNN who told the truth about that mentally unstable, colorist token negro male Kanye West? Lol. Okay. ? Look, there is nothing wrong with being a traditionalist or a conservative but there is PLENTY wrong with voting for that egotistical, lying sociopath Trump. THIS was not the election cycle to be voting for the presidential Republican candidate, but as usual, many negro males are too dumb to understand that. ?
Way to stay on the plantation brotha! Don’t you dare free think either. There will be plenty of handouts for you from the Democratic party.
Please prove it. Trump was never a racist until he ran for president. Once people like you get your heads out your asses and stop believing the same hateful rhetoric all media is pushing your opinion is completely invalid.
Me no like Mr. Kanye. Mi use to work for Mr. Kanye when he recorded the black album. Mr. Kanye paid me any money and always said he didn’t record that album. Mi confronted Mr. Kanye and told him, than why I hear voice on “Encore”? Mr. Kanye was speechless and stopped returning mi calls. Mi no like Mr. Kanye anymore, because he lied to me. Why not pay me for work I do on black album mr. Kanye? Is you upset I helped with rhymes? No? Mr. Kanye, please give me the money earned. I will tell Trump to not be friend if I don’t get paid, ok?
Mi thinks you should learn the English language.
Trump’s making it okay for people to be themselves. That’s what draws me to Trump, and I think that’s what draws Kanye to Trump.
Can you explain to me how trump is racist and provide just ONE piece of evidence(not what you read on CNN)? I’ll wait…. and keep waiting.
“Trump is making it ok to be racist a fool and condones it that’s the problem.” Use your reading comprehension while you wait “sheeple”.
I read this shit all the time that people are being influenced to hate trump by the media. Is the most stupid and idiotic comment you can hear in these times. People formed their opinions of trump based in his actions and words. You that love trump and feel you weren’t convinced to hate him, do you love him because you know him personally?? How funny it is you have reasons when it doesn’t suit you.
Yeah, with a quick glance at some of these pages that are giving CNN this backlash, you can tell they say things like “All Lives Matter”. Every one of their pages is filled with videos like “watch the libtards lose their minds when Trump owns them” sooo I’m sure nobody on that panel cares even a little bit what any of them think.
Yeah saying everyone is the same and should be treated equal is OBVIOUSLY worse then calling a Black guy a “Dumb Negro” for thinking on his own. Sir you won the Internet this month. Congratz
Fuck that idiot mayate! Get at him Daz
This is what the world came to. All of these programmed puppets. They’ll always tell you “be you, do what you do, be free blah blah” but when you do, when you think you, and for whatever reason your thinking is not compatible with their close minds then you fucked, you a racist, you a mental. This CNN guy is a living scum. Look up the reaction of Nina Turner also. I ain’t even gonna saybanything cause this will get deleted pretty soon. Love you Kanye with all of my heart, do what you do I am proud of you.
shame on you cnn.
What in covfefe is this? They’re just calling it like it is.
A news network owned by the same tribe that is ethnically cleansing pal.es.tinians 24/7 stealing their land is racist?? I’m shocked!
this is about kanye not about filastin idiot
Stop following politics. It’s all poison. If you want to be want to be “aware”, then go out in your own community. Don’t expect politicians, or rappers, to do anything other than push their own brand and agenda. All the political turmoil and controversy constantly blaring from the TV and the Internet drains your energy and and desensitizes you. It’s like watching you much porn. It satisfies something in you at the moment, but it takes your inspiration from you and makes you pessimistic and hateful little by little in the long run. Spread love. Peace.
I guess “keeping it real” only applies when its in reference to not “snitching”, murdering one another and selling drugs to one another that destroy our community. Whenever someone makes a valid point it automatically resorts back to the race card. Kanye West has become Trumps token negro and he obviously doesnt read enough about the subjects he speaks on or he wouldnt say half the stupid shit he says. That entire meeting was Kanye essentially sucking Trumps dick and telling him how great he is. One narcissist telling another how great he is and back and forth like a huge ego petting session. Its the truth when T.I calls him a sambo and an uncle tom but if anyone outside of hi0 hop says anything its the end of the fucking world. Stating facts is not racism its just fucking facts. It has turned into a minstrel show and everytime Kanye opens his mouth he makes himself sound like a fucking idiot. And now the word negro is a racial slur, the fuck outta here with youre sensitive asses
What funny about your comment is I didn’t even read it…all I did was pick key words….to know that your speaking jibberish….lol
Negro is blatantly being used as a microagression term just like when Thug was being used as such.
Kanye is a white supremacist house negro? I don’t think thats possible…
Stupid left wing communists don’t care about logic or facts. Thats why they pushing this fake news / censorship shit, because the official narrative couldn’t survive a honest debate about it.
here come the trump supporters…
We must be in the twilight zone…cause they praising the rich white girl (Taylor Swift) and demonizing a black man
I just feel like Trump is using Kanye as his token negro, to try and keep an entire race happy. I just feel like Trump thinks that if hes cool with Kanye, then he is cool with everybody
Backlash from who? The far right? ? .. HE IS A TOKEN NEGRO THRU AND THRU
Caplocks tsk tsk, better take your anti racist meds soon or they’ll be coming for you with a brand new long armed jacket.
CNN isn’t facing shjt. No one in the news world is talking about this. Comments weren’t even c!use to the trash spewed on Fox. Stick to lil pump and six nine.
Trump is just using Kanye for publicity, and Kanye eats up whatever press he gets, so both get what they want. Deep down, I think Trump laughs at Kanye. The media is having a field day on both sides of the aisle.
Apparently you can’t be black and have an opinion that runs contrary to what is expected of you, because then, what are all these motherfuckers who claim to “speak for the race” gonna say when it comes to you, and how will the white liberals reconcile it in their bite-sized pea-brains without being told what to think?
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They keep taking about race. They don’t realise that they are the racist ones. I mean, where would Michael Eric Dyson be without it?
The author of this article is the real racist
The author of this article is the real racist
I didn’t see the author of this article calling anyone a “token negroe.” In fact didn’t use any racist languge at all, just laid down the facts
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Kanye and Trump using each other for popularity. And the press is eating it up and giving them what they want.
Lmao people don’t even know, you dumb as clowns every 5 years Washington pulls the same trick on you dumb fvcks. Republicans and Democrats aren’t rivals they’re brothers in arms united against you morons. The civil war wasn’t just about traditional slavery vs capatilistic slavery, it was about racist southerners standing up against the east coast establishment that had sold out the state’s to European banking syndicates. It’s not by coincidence that educated men and women sit back and keep quiet when this false liberals are attacking freedom of speech and indoctrinating new generations into believing about gender fluidity which written about 200 years ago in German philosophical circles. The Chinese are laughing at us, the great American circus indeed. We’ve got negroes insulting other negroes on behalf of white capitalism God bless this shxt hole
You may have had something until your last sentence. Look beyond skin colour.
Your rite goyim have no color or gender just human cattle who must obey there hero masters @ all times
Name one thing Trump has done that’s racist. Two years in office, and you all thought he’d be rounding up legal immigrants, keeping African Americans down, and calling for violence and incivity against the opposition. To date, African American unemployment at an all time high. Same with our Hispanic community. That doesn’t sound like keeping minorities down. The left is being uncivil during these times, and more violence comes from the left than anything yet they always cite Charlottesville. As for immigration, the focus is on ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. Secure the borders and require an ID for all who vote.
One love!
*African American unemployment at an all time low.
Making an article based on random Twitter tweets is not journalism, its more along the lines of manipulative propaganda