Kanye West compares his situation to George Floyd: ‘Now I know what it’s like to feel a knee on the neck’

On Friday (October 28), Kanye West spoke to some paparazzi after his daughter North West’s basketball game, apologizing for questioning the cause of George Floyd’s death – while also justifying his anti-Semitic remarks. West had repeatedly expressed hostility towards Jews in the past few weeks and claimed that George Floyd did not die from police violence but from a fentanyl overdose.

Kanye West apologized for his conspiracy theories about George Floyd, now that he “knows what it feels like to have one knee on your neck.” Regarding the video of Floyd with a police officer kneeling on him, West said: It hurts him when he looks at it as a black person because he thinks America is overwhelmingly racist and the #BlackLivesMatter movement has brought people together. Of the words he uttered about George Floyd on the Drink Champs podcast, he said: “When I said that and questioned the death of George Floyd, I hurt my people, the black people. So I want me [dafür] sorry for hurting her. Because God showed me what it feels like to have a knee on your neck through what Adidas does and through what the media does. So thank you God for humbling me and letting me know how it really feels. After all, how could the richest black man ever be humiliated other than to be made from a billionaire to a millionaire for a single remark in front of everyone?”

When asked about his anti-Semitic comments, he replied, “I didn’t know something like that could be considered anti-Semitic until I read the definition of anti-Semitism.” Claims about Jews as such or the power of Jews as a collective […] such as the myth that […] Jews who control the media, economy, government, or social institutions.” A paparazzi interrupted Kanye West and asked, “Isn’t that exactly what you said?” To which the rapper replied, “Yeah, but that’s actually anti-Semitic and I wasn’t aware of that.” When asked if he shared his words repented and would take it back, he just read out an overview of Jewish executives at major media companies and magazines. In the past, West felt they had banded together against him.

He then reported on his time during the election campaign with Donald Trump. At that time he went to a Jewish doctor who gave him medication for a disorder, “but because I didn’t accept the misdiagnosis and didn’t take the medication, I can speak to you impartially and transparently.”

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