Kanye West has never been one to shy away from the big moment, using his incredibly large platform to express any sentiment he pleases. During a stop for his Saint Pablo Tour, West told a San Jose, California audience that he backs Donald Trump and further told Black people to stop focusing on racism.
West was at the SAP Center in San Jose Thursday night (November 17) and stopped the show to deliver a speech that meandered as is typical for the Chicago superstar. During a portion of the speech, West admitted to not voting but said he is putting his faith in Donald Trump.
West opened up his speech by saying there were portions of Trump’s presidential campaign that he enjoyed and was self-aware enough to mention that his public support of the president-elect could hurt his tour ticket sales. However, it was West’s admission that he didn’t even vote that prompted the loudest response.
“I told you all I didn’t vote right? But if I would have voted, I would have voted for Trump,” West said to a mixture of jeers and muted clapping. West went on to throw a jab at the Democratic Party for taking the Black vote for granted and assuming that he as a celebrity would support Hillary Clinton’s failed run.
Despite the rising number of hate crimes against minorities and members of the LGBT community, West believes that Black people are too focused on racism and urged the crowd to shift away from that stance.
West also reiterated his plans to run for president in 2020 as well.
Watch more of Kanye West’s Saint Pablo Tour speech courtesy of DJ Akademiks’ Instagram page below.
My gosh … true narcissistic desperation lol
He has Ideas how to connect our Ideas. Thats basically what he says to his Songwriters. I have the Idea to make your Ideas to my Ideas
Haha holy shit i agree with kanye for once… dont just focus on the race and sexism bullshit look what the dems and liberals have been doing for the past 8 years only focusing on that bullshit and buried this country into an even deeper hole of debt doing so to support a shit ton of immigrant/refugees who should have never stepped foot on our soil to begin with and have no pride or respect for it or our flag go ahead you bunch of babies keep fuckin crying about black and white white and brown and keep arguing over which bathroom to use and how women have it so bad when women have there advantages in this world as men do too so keep crying while china comes to collect on our asses and has us all speaking mandarin and chinese
Shut your dumb ass up. Yep, raising the Pell grant back up or cutting the rate for student loans was for immigrants. Dumb motherfuckers gonna be dumb though.
Then learn to be independant and open a business without any college like me you fucking sheep and shut the fuck up and earn your education by doing good in school leading up to colege theres this thing called grants for good prospective students unlike yours and your friends dumbasses nothings free you fucking baby a higher education is a PRIVELAGE not an expextancy you big baby now go cry about not getting your hand outs
Kanye is a good mainstream rapper but seems like he does literally anything to make the news and it’s kinda disgusting. What’s next? Confession of a murder to make sales higher?
if he wanted press he would have supported hillary, like all the other good little black rappers who fell in line to prop up that corrupt warmongering fraud, part of the party responsible for tanking the black community over the course of 50 years.
What gets you more press following the person that everyone follows or being the only Black Rapper that supports the White racist??
That makes too much sense for most.
Fuck this guy… What a joke. Could’ve sworn he was endorsing Hillary before??? What a fucking joke. Anything for mainstream media. Ladies and gentleman… You “god” kanye west is a fucking fraud. Whatever gets people hype right? Anything to make a buck? Yall “kanye fans” have been brainwashed for years… Following a fraud who doesnt think for himself. He has writers to do that. The music is good no hate. But lets be real. Kanye is no political figure and should never speak on such things. Hes sending the wrong message to youth
Yeah fuck this guy lets continue to tak about race and how it’s fucking up our world today..EVERYBODYS RACIST!!!
Speak for yourself your racist ass.
People act like this s the first time Kanye told people to stop focusing on race.
i hope jay-z slaps this dude. What a punk
He would need beys balls out of her purse and her written consent to allow him to do so first
“Despite the rising number of hate crimes against minorities and members of the LGBT community-” this is a lie. What we REALLY have is dozens upon dozens of reported and filmed attacks on Trump supporters regardless of race or age.
Is there a possibility it’s both? Why do these have to be mutually exclusive?
Where are those “attacks on Trump supporters” or is that right-wing propaganda bullshit?
At last someone with a bit of sense
To translate what Kayne said: black people just get down on yours knees and respect the white men even when he disrespects you. Blacks so used to rasiscm now, it became the regular thing. I guess the willie lynch worked.
This is the one thing I may ever agree on that Kanye says.
Hillary supporters are mostly uneducated people trying to feel important.
35% of hillary supporters are college grads compared to 11% for dump
Do you believe going to college is the only way to be educated?
Would love to see how many of those College Grads for Hillary majored in “Women’s Studies” or “Liberal Arts” or some other piece of sh!t degree.
Some of the most sucsefull people I know didn’t go to college and are wealth business owners..I also know people who graduated from college that make less money than me
2 most important things are low unemployment and a good economy. Someone who goes to work everyday is focused on being able to live for themselves and/or family.
If you don’t have a job, that’s your fault. Dumb ass ought to go to school and learn an invaluable trade instead of everybody trying to make it to the Minstrel Show for whitey. Dumb mofos think they can work at a factory when a robot does the same job for less money…that or slave workers in China for 1/7 the price.
Exactly and lowering my health care…hmmm wonder how you do that???
Michigan 300,000 votes less than Obama in 2012 (75,00 Black voters accepted the boycott challenge); North Carolina 2 million votes decided to stay home; Wisconsin 230,000 fewer votes; and Pennsylvania 130,000 blacks said no this year to the Democratic Party. This is how black America (Todd Elliott Koger) helped make Donald Trump our 45th President.
The Democrats had always thrown shade in our direction. Black Lives Matter’s founders put in writing their “rejection” of us because their stated agenda was “LGBTQ” issues. In June 2016, Donald Trump was the only one willing to listen to us. We explained to Mr. Trump that we had been voting almost 50 years “straight” Democrat and our situation remained the same or worst.
First, Mr. Trump issued an online video that addressed our plight. Next he went to Michigan and then took the message to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Thereafter, we packaged the visual optics and shared his fight against the “status quo” with black America. And, in late August 2016, we outlined the grassroots plan that defined demographics, targeted groups, and the available tools to grow an arsenal of black Trump supporters. We had to work night and day to control the message and Mr. Trump’s “Plan for Black America” as a campaign strategy to change the conversation when Mr. Trump slumped in the polls.
When “sh*t hit the fan” in October 2016 and everyone started to run from Mr. Trump we suggested a “writing,” a “NEW DEAL” proposal for black America to put things back on track. Donald Trump owes his victory to “predominately black Democratic strongholds of Pennsylvania” who were convinced to give Mr. Trump 31 percent more votes than the previous Republican Party presidential candidate. African Americans like Todd Elliott Koger convinced hundreds of thousands blacks in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Michigan, and various other states to boycott the traditional “straight” Democratic Party vote in 2016.
Mr. Trump’s “margin of victory” is realized when you combine this with an increase of “Obama white voters” in Wisconsin and Michigan voting Trump in 2016. Trump won Pennsylvania by 1.1 percentage points (68,236 votes), Wisconsin by 0.9 points (27,257 votes), and Michigan by 0.2 points (11,837 votes). If Clinton had won all three states, she would have won the Electoral College 278 to 260. She fell short in all three.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dieNd5h_qpw
Kanye cares about tax breaks..
1) Not only is American Racist but its sexist so there is no way they were going to put a woman in after a black man.
2) The man gave blacks a black president and whites felt like they lost their control so they had to get it back with a radical person preaching change like Trump.
3) They want the country divided because its easier to control a group of people.
You just throwing around blacks white women men like it actually means something make me think you are racist and sexist..the problem with America right now is we are divided and want to be..STOP SEEIN COLOR AND SEX AND START SEEING PEOPLE
THIS FOOL DIDN’T EVEN VOTE…..end of story, whatever this p.o.s. has to say is irrelevant concerning the election and results…Also I find it very convienent for Kanye to say stop focusing on racism but it’s ok for him to complain about it as he has in the past when it benefitted him.
Racism is something that is taught the more we more we spread positivity the better off we will be
He is right. Ni66as please stop crying and waiting for white daddy to fix shit.
Didn’t he once say” George Bush doesn’t care about black people”!? NOW black people shouldn’t focus on racism? NOW it doesn’t matter? Fuck You! kanye
I cant with this guy anymore. His art USED to give him publicity. These days, his stunts are the only thing that’s worthy (I use that term loosely) of talking about. Smh
Coming from the dude that told the world Bush doesn’t care about black people. GTFOH Kanye. Must be a slow week cuz your names hasn’t been in the news until today.
What’s wrong wit u Kanye? Money got to ya head or what? IGNORANT FUCK
“KANYE DOES NOT CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE…”In his own voice.
That’s funny seriously…but people just assuming trump supporters are racist is just as bad as assuming racist thoughts
lmao a few months ago every one was defending this douche bag, calling him a great “artist” and how he’ll go down as one of the greatest. Now he says he would have voted trump now y’all flipping sides.
Fuck Kanye West & Fuck Donald Trump! ! !
Damn, all that shit I talked about kanye in the past, I take it all back now. he’s the goat to me now.
Is it possible for fans who grew up on 90s hiphop support donald trump
A council of Native American leaders has offered partial amnesty to the estimated 220 million illegal white immigrants living in the United States.
The “white” problem has been a topic of much debate in the Native American community for centuries, and community leaders have decided the time has come to properly address it.*
Daily Currant reports, “At a meeting of the Native Peoples Council (NPC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico yesterday, Native American leaders considered several proposals on the future of this continent’s large, unauthorized European population.
The elders ultimately decided to extend a pathway to citizenship for those without criminal backgrounds.”
The truth is this: even through slavery, reconstruction, jim crow and the modern era there have always been black people who wanted to improve their lives and the moment they saw an opportunity they took it. And now, just like then, most people are more concerned about their excuses for why they can’t succeed.
If I stopped typing here the all the responses would list uncommon circumstances like people living in Aleppo, Syria or child quadraplegics or common media phenomenon like police harassment or even severe racism. Let me preempt those thoughts by saying this: Its not that I don’t care about everyone’s problems (and I don’t) it’s that LIFE doesn’t care about any and every excuse you could conjure up. No one is every coming to save you. You have to go and get what you want.
You all are racist !..brainwashed by liberal media.Your blind to facts believing all that racist shit on TV.
look in the mirror man wow get sum sike help
This is why Kanye will be forgotten soon after his last album, drops. Hr has NO soul;, No Character, just a puppet to be used. Tupac would have NEVER fallen for this and he was over a decade younger! I wish people would stop buying his BULLSHIT. He’ll NEVER be one of the greats, cause he can’t get his mind right.