Kanye West
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Podcast Appearances
We are the influencers of the rest of the planet.
We're the youngest startup in history, right?
We're the youngest corporation.
We're the youngest superpower, right?
So for me and my position, the fact that I can talk to Trump one day and be at a game with Kim Kardashian the next day and then be at Paris Fashion Week, they don't want me to be involved with language of decisive, divisive language.
proving that I can be just as racist as a racist white person.
Oh, I can be a racist black person also.
That's not what God has called me to do.
So how do I simplify and say, hey, to you as a visionary, as an engineer, as a person that's given me a platform that as my brother, I want to apologize to you for how that made you feel and to the rest of...
the people that carry specifically that pain, not the pain that I talk about that doesn't seem to be as much of a pain for people when I talk about the abortion clinics and stuff.
That's, it's like, that's an argued pain even in my own community.
Like, not everyone thinks that's a pain.
But for the Jewish community, it's collectively, this was a pain.
And I've gone, I've gone so far just psychologically on this journey since that statement had happened.
where I didn't want to give up the candy in my pocket.
I didn't want to say, hey, I stuck my hand in the candy jar.
I wanted to defend my freedom of speech.
I wanted this.
But even with freedom of speech, pain is pain.