Kanye West has explained why he wore his “White Lives Matter” shirt during a new interview with Fox News.
Ye addressed his controversial Paris Fashion Week stunt in a conversation with Tucker Carlson on Thursday (October 6), revealing he thought the shirt was “funny.”
“I do certain things from a feeling,” he said. “I just channel the energy, it just feels right. It’s using a gut instinct, a connection with God, and just brilliance … God is preparing us for the real battles, and we are in a battle with the media. The majority of the media has a God-less agenda, and the jokes are not working. This whole like, ‘Oh, Ye’s crazy,’ and all these things, they don’t work.”
Kanye continued: “My dad is an educated ex-Black Panther and he put a text to me that said, ‘White Lives Matter hahaha.’ And I said, ‘I thought the shirt was a funny shirt.’ I said the idea of me wearing it was funny. I said, ‘Dad, what do you think of it?’ He said, ‘Just a Black man stating the obvious.’
“My favorite response, ’cause I kept on thinking, ‘They’re looking for an explanation.’ And people say, ‘Well, as an artist, you don’t have to give an explanation, but as a leader, you do.’ So the answer to why I wrote ‘White Lives Matter’ on a shirt is, because they do. It’s the obvious thing.”
Speaking on why the “White Lives Matter” slogan would be considered controversial, he said: “Because the same people that have stripped us of our identity and labeled us as a color have told us what it means to be Black, and the vernacular that we’re supposed to have.”
Kanye West also addressed his “White Lives Matter” shirt during a recent appearance on French television show Clique, explaining it was in response to seeing white people wear Black Lives Matter shirts.
“At a certain point, it felt like I saw white people wearing shirts that said ‘Black Lives Matter’ like they were doing me such a favor by having a T-shirt that reminded me that my life mattered, like I didn’t already know that,” he said. “So I thought I’d return the favor and let white people know that, ‘Hey, your life matters too.'”
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Ye also briefly elaborated on his previous comments about the Black Lives Matter movement being a “scam.”
“Well, because it’s proven,” he said. “They had people who ended up taking money from it. I mean, this documentation is out there. And just, as Black people, we’re gonna need more than just a T-shirt and a six million dollar home. We need what was promised to us.”
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Ah yes, nothing like going on Tucker fucking Carlson to explain your stance on white lives matter. That dude loves your new stance Koonye
Would it have been better if he sat down with Joy fucking Reid? How about Rachel fucking Maddow? Or even better, Don fucking Lemon.
Regis Philbin
Yes because they wouldn’t bought that fake enlightened garbage he throws around.
Yes, on Tucker he is preaching to the choir, deacons and Sunday School teacher. Those others would have challenged him and then he could attempt to support his bootlicking stance.
How about rappers stay off of political shows. It’s the height of corniness. Pac said fuck Bill Clinton and Bob Dole. Rocking with an open white supremacist though is the height of ignorance.
Explain how Tucker Carlson is a white supremacist.
One of his whole narratives is how America is under attack because white men are being replaced in this country by minorities.
kanye be trolling.
Let me explain why I’m disrespecting these black families who have had someone murdered by law enforcement to a white guy who hates black people. Yep, free thinker, lol. The people defending him are dumber than him, and that’s saying something.
Facts
FOX NEWS HUH? DEFINITELY POLITICAL.
If he said that Black Lives Matter is an outdated tagline and that after 10 years Black lives still haven’t mattered and that’s why I wore it..I’d actually agree. But he left no context and even now it seems like a fake answer.
This whole incident exposed how racist so many black people are. Im not saying all black people are racist, but so many showed hypocrisy and support for double standards. During the George Floyd protests, lots of white people stood up and wore BLM shirts. And this is how they pay us back ? We dont matter huh ? Ok fine, lesson learned. Wake up white people. This isnt about equality.
You’re one of the biggest far-right trolls here, always supporting the worst qualities of black people only. You never supported anything that actually contributes to the betterment of society or anything aside from spreading more hate.
Every time there is an article here about supporting black people or anything that has to do with disapproving racism or hate towards black people, people like this miserable piece of vomit always has to come in and express how much he hates it and that it’s something that black people does not deserve, with his reasons being generalizations towards black people as a whole. What he does support is shitty things that further perpetuate the stereotypes against them, such as pedophile shit like Kodak Black hiring a stripper to twerk in front of his 7 year old son. He’d obviously get beat the fuck up if he decided to express this type of crap in public, so he has to come on a site like this where other hateful miserable cowards like to come and support the type of shit.
Listen to the HATE that you had within you the entire time!! Black people CAN NEVER be as racist as YOUR WYT PEOPLE ANCESTORS HAVE!! No black man ever lunch or enslaved a Wyt person!! Not to mention, there are 40 million African Americans, compared to 276 Million European Americans!! Jim Crow laws literally burned down and stole ALL that Blacks built post-reconstruction!! Look it up doofus!! You literally use ONE person to form you opinion about “Blacks being racist”?!? That’s the most Gaslighting/Hypocritical statement EVER!!
“as Black people, we’re gonna need more than just a T-shirt and a six million dollar home. We need what was promised to us.” Bruh Patrice cullors done messed up!! If the media actually covered this corruption a lot more people would praise ye as a hero for standing up to the machine
pops a panther n u out here knocking up whi te bimb os to raise balc k babies is a huge fail what a dissapointment mama would be ashamed
Why are we so afraid of different opinions now? People melt when some thinks different. You will always see better with 2 eyes. The world doesn’t run one way. Free will and thought creates new ideas and beliefs.
So let’s just continue to let others be able to share that they hate another person just because they are women or transgendered, for example, and that those people must be oppressed, or that human rights such as forming worker unions for workers to be better treated and have better pay in many work environments should always be removed so that the rich can stay richer while the poor and abused will stay in their place, yet let those same people be fine with outright expressing in numerous ways of wanting to silence anyone that supports any of the rights of these types of people, just because of the one way selfish view of “fREEdoM oF SpEeCH”. I’m so sick of this “centrist” BS that people like you keep trying to spout on here and try to victimize the ones who obviously supports intentional harm towards another just because they don’t like their existence, compared to the other group who has to defend their own rights and lives. Just say that you’re a closet Republican.
What in the hell are you talking about lol. You sound crazy. I couldn’t stop laughing reading this. You don’t know me or how I think.
I hate Kanye with a passion but I think he’s proving a point here. If he wore a blm shirt this wouldn’t be a story. Put on a white lives matter and the whole worlds talking about it. Everyone’s that mad about this is ignorant. It just proves all of this is stupid. Black Lives Matter white lives matter everyone fucking matters period end of story.
Bullshii!! You know full on that this country is a Wyt country FOR Wyt People!! The hypocrisy is real! No matter what you say, as long as the MAJORITY in this country looks like Europeans, it’s NEVER gonna be equal!
Reverse Psychology.. EDUCATE URSELF AND SEE THE VISION I. THE TUNNEL. I’m getting the shirt!!! IT OK TO CREATE N PROMOTE BLM SHIRT BUT I CANT SAY WLM..???? u nicccas are lame… cause ALM. But for now imma make some money of WLM like y’all did on BLM ✊? ???
If you’re white and wear a black lives matter shirt, blacks folks won’t appreciate it (as if blacks don’t know their life matters), if you don’t wear it, black folks say you’re racist? The fuck is wrong with this divisive blakkk American state of mind?