Kanye West Is An Anti-Semitic Idiot
The Anti-Defamation League denounced recent comments by
hip-hop star Kanye West as "classic anti-Semitism."
In a radio interview, West defended President Obama’s
difficulty in passing his policies, saying “Black people don’t have the same
level of connections as Jewish people.”
"There it goes again, the age-old canard that Jews are
all-powerful and control the levers of power in government," said ADL
national director Abraham Foxman in a statement. "As a celebrity with a wide following,
Kanye West should know better.
We hope
that he will take responsibility for his words, understand why they are so
offensive, and apologize to those he has offended.”
In the radio interview, West drew a distiction between
"George Bush and oil money and Obama and no money.
People want to say
Obama can’t make these moves or he’s not executing. That’s because he ain’t got
those connections. Black people don’t have the same level of connections as
Jewish people.
Black people don’t have the same connection as oil people,” he
said.
He continued: “You know we don’t know nobody that got a nice
house. You know we don’t know nobody with paper like that we can go to when we
down. You know they can just put us back or put us in a corporation.
You know
we ain’t in situation. Can you guarantee that your daughter can get a job at
this radio station? But if you own this radio station, you could guarantee
that. That’s what I’m talking about.”
West has made comparisons in the past that have raised the
hackles of the Jewish community.
In August 2011 he was booed at a concert in England after
comparing himself to Hitler. “I walk through the hotel and I walk down the
street, and people look at me like I’m (expletive) insane, like I’m Hitler,”
West told an audience of 40,000 over the weekend at the Big Chill Festival. As
the audience booed, he said, “One day the light will shine through, and one day
people will understand everything I ever did.”
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