Rapper Kanye West moved up on the rank last month as he
received the Visionary Award at the 2015 BET Honors. He mounted the stage and
gave his wife, Kim Kardashian a kiss, before giving a long speech. Kanye began by saying he felt humbled for the
first time in his life and then used his relationship with Kim, who is a
“person not of color” to talk about race and separatism. He thanked Kim and
told everyone that she wasn't in a relationship with him for his fame or
fortune.
“My wife has dated broke black dudes so it ain’t got nothing
to do with the money.” He shared a story Kim once told him about her father
Robert Kardashian being deemed a “n*gger lover” for representing O.J. Simpson.
Kanye said, “We deal with racism because there are different races. Or the
micro of it is that we focus on the different races, as opposed to the macro,
which is the human race.”
While making reference to some of his past controversial
remarks, Kanye said “race” and “people’s perception of celebrity” have been
used to stop him from being “empowered,” and argued that the worth of black
people have been misrepresented. He even said, “Harriet Tubman could have freed
more if they only knew they weren’t free.” West went on, “So don’t think that
because we can afford this custom Balmain suit that we’re free. And don’t think
that because we can buy a $300,000 car that we’re free. And don’t think because
three percent of a gated community has colored people in it that we’re free.”
“It’s the mentality, the slave mentality, that we all
eventually become slaves to that car, slaves to the perception, slaves to the
idea of being cool,” West continued. He concluded, “Our power, our oil, since
we don’t own any oil, is our expression, is our influence. Don’t never let them
take that away. And when we have the chance to express it and influence, don’t
just do it for us. Do it for the human race.”
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