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Kanye West has defended his “White Lives Matter” t-shirt after receiving backlash for it.
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The rapper sat down for an interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson on Thursday, October 6.
During the interview, he said he wore the “White Lives Matter” t-shirt at a Paris fashion show because “they do.”
The 45-year-old rapper also appeared shocked by the backlash the stunt caused.
Ye said: “I do certain things from a feeling. I just channel the energy, it just feels right. It’s using a gut instinct, a connection with God and just brilliance.”
Kanye said his father had reached out to him about the shirt, and told him he thought it was funny.
I thought the shirt was a funny shirt, Kanye stated. The concept of wearing it amused me. “Dad, why do you think it’s funny?” I questioned. “Just a black man expressing the obvious,” he added.
Kanye continued to talk to Calson about the backlash the T-shirt had received from the public.
They’re asking for an explanation, and while artists are exempt from this need, leaders must do so.
“White Lives Matter does exist, which is why I wrote it on a shirt. It is a simple matter.
Kanye West responded to Carlson’s question by blaming “a collective mob” of “liberal nazis” as well as the media, which he claimed promotes white cultural standards, for the controversy surrounding the “White Lives Matter” comment.
Because those who have robbed us of our identities and reduced us to a color have also instructed us what it means to be black and what language you should use, he explained.
He related a personal narrative of how his father, a former member of the Black Panthers, experienced racism while growing up in Delaware as one of, if not the only, black families there. West claimed that his father was told by his black peers that he “spoke white” while attending a black university.
The uproar around the garment, according to Kanye, began when a black girl claimed she “felt terrified” after viewing it.
Ye remarked: “It’s like a black girl telling someone, ‘I was scared when I saw a black man wearing something he wasn’t meant to wear,'”
He linked it to the 2012 film “Django Unchained” by Quentin Tarantino, in which Samuel L. Jackson’s house slave character is angry with Jamie Fox’s free black man character for riding on a horse in antebellum America.
“We would treat our people better if we regarded ourselves as a people and not a race,” West remarked.
“In America, we black people will judge one another based on how well we speak. However, we do so in English. English is the whitest language there is. Actually, we’re not speaking in our mother tongue. As a result, rather than judging one another strictly on the basis of our culture, we do so on the basis of white goal lines.”
Kanye, who sported a MAGA hat during his meeting with former President Donald Trump at the White House in 2018 and previously sported a jacket with the Confederate flag on it back in 2013, claimed to Carlson that his support for President Donald Trump and other issues has caused him to become isolated from friends and even put him at risk of violent attacks.
“My so-called friends/handlers warned me that my career would be finished if I admitted that I liked Trump. that my existence would end. People get killed for wearing a headgear like that, they claimed. They made me feel in danger. They basically told me that if I wore the hat, I would be killed, West recalled.
“Someone called me last night and claimed that anyone wearing a white lives matter shirt would get the go-ahead. That implies that if they wear it, they will beat them up. You know, green light me then, I say.”
