What did Kanye West say? The rapper is commenting on the fallout from his antisemitic remarks.
"When the idea of Black Lives Matter came out, it made us come together as a people," he said. "So, I said that, and I questioned the death of George Floyd, it hurt my people. It hurt the Black people. So, I want to apologize to hurting them because right now God has shown me by what Adidas is doing, and by what the media is doing, I know how it feels to have a knee on my neck now. So I thank you, God for humbling me and letting me know how it really felt.
"At a time like this, if I was on medication right now, then one pill could have been swapped out, and it would have been Michael Jackson or Prince all over again," West said. He also compared himself to Emmett Till, who was brutally lynched in 1955 at age 14, and said at times he has felt like Malcom X and Martin Luther King Jr."I'm just not worried. Period," West said in response to someone in the crowd who asked if he was worried that he had ruined his legacy. "God is alive."
Antisemitic demonstrators referenced West in signs raised in Los Angeles last weekend and Jacksonville, Florida this weekend. In the video, West did not apologize for his antisemitic remarks but seemed to try to distance himself from any "hate group." "I have no association to any hate group," West said as he closed his remarks in prayer. "If any hate happens upon any Jewish person, it is not associated because I am demanding that everyone walk in love."
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