Kanye West went on a bizarre rant on Friday night in front of gathered paparazzi in which he apologized for falsely claiming George Floyd died from the narcotic drug fentanyl rather than the reality which saw a Minneapolis police officer suffocating him by placing a knee on his neck for nine minutes.
West, who now goes by Ye, engaged with photographers for a lengthy conversation in which he also said he did not realize he was being anti-Semitic in earlier comments.
While West didn’t apologize while making his remarks, he did say that he had been ‘humbled’ with the furor costing him an estimated $1 billion in business deals, including his highly-successful Yeezy line of clothing sold by Adidas.
West equated the experience akin to having a ‘knee on my neck’ in a direct comparison with Floyd’s 2020 death under the hands of officer Derek Chauvin.
The conversation was both convoluted and confusing in which West would make statements before retracting them simultaneously.
‘When I see that video as a black person, it hurts my feelings. And I know that police do attack and America is generally racist,’ he said to waiting photographers. ‘And I understand that when we got to say Black Lives Matter, that the idea of it made us feel good together as a people, right?
‘So when I questioned the death of George Floyd, it hurt my people. I want to apologize. Because God has showed me by what Adidas is doing, by what the media is doing, I know how it feels to have a knee on my neck now,’ he continued.
‘So thank you God for humbling me and letting me know how it really felt. Because how could the richest black men ever be humbled other than to be made to not be a billionaire in front of everyone off of one comment.’
The family of George Floyd is currently in the midst of preparing a $250 million lawsuit against West for his unfounded claims made during a podcast earlier this month.
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Source: Daily Mail
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