Hey, remember how just yesterday nosotros said that nosotros "accept to wonder what other ludicrous events are set to transpire between at present and when Kanye'due south adjacent solo album comes out"? Well, Kanye W is naught if non reliable, and has at present attempted to clarify some controversial comments he made in which he states that slavery of African Americans was a "choice".

Earlier this morning, Kanye appeared on a live chart with TMZ in which he touched on a lot of topics, including his previously unknown opiate addiction that occurred after receiving liposuction. However, it was Kanye'southward comments on slavery that attracted the almost controversy.

"I'yard a black person, a [member] of the black community, merely I'm not simply that," Kanye said. "I'm always gonna stand for that, but I also represent the world."

"When y'all hear about slavery for 400 years – for 400 years?! That sounds like a choice," he argued every bit TMZ 'south presenters looked visibly uncomfortable. "Like, you lot was there for 400 years and it'south all of y'all? It's similar nosotros're mentally in prison."

Soon though,TMZ reporter Van Lathan took Kanye to task for his comments, confronting him in a way that many take probably wanted to for quite some time.

"I actually don't think you lot're thinking anything," Lathan said. "I remember what you're doing right now is actually the absenteeism of thought."

"While you are making music and beingness an artist and living the life that y'all've earned past existence a genius, the remainder of us in society accept to bargain with these threats to our lives," he continued. "We have to deal with the marginalisation that has come from the 400 years of slavery that you lot said for our people was a choice."

"Frankly I am disappointed, I'm appalled, and brother, I am unbelievably injure by the fact that yous have morphed into something that is not real."

Post-obit these controversial remarks, which have generated more discussion in just a few hours than a lot of Kanye's previous deportment, West took to Twitter to try and clarify the remarks he fabricated.

"We need to have open up discussions and ideas on unsettled hurting to make myself clear. Of course I know that slaves did not get shackled and put on a boat by free volition," he wrote on Twitter.

"My point is for us to have stayed in that position even though the numbers were on our side means that we were mentally enslaved," he continued. "They cut out our tongues so nosotros couldn't communicate to each other. I volition not allow my tongue to be cut."

Following a Tweet in which he compared himself to slavery abolitionist Harriet Tubman and famous insubordinate Nat Turner, Kanye explained that the give-and-take on race issues needs to be updated.

"The reason why I brought up the 400 years indicate is because we can't exist mentally imprisoned for another 400 years," he wrote. "Nosotros need complimentary thought now. Fifty-fifty the statement was an example of free thought. Information technology was simply an idea."

"One time again I am being attacked for presenting new ideas."

While there's every hazard that Kanye might exist a trivial bit quieter post-obit this controversial incident, the past shows us that, if he gets knocked down, he gets right support once again, then keep an eye onThe Brag for more news on Kanye's questionable decisions over the coming month.

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