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Watch Kanye Get Schooled By A TMZ Staffer After He Says Slavery Was A ‘Choice’

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If you haven’t been following Kanye’s pro-Trump MAGA escapades, he’s been meeting with alt-right leaders, getting advice from pro-GOP texters, and earning the reprobation of his peers. Kanye isn’t letting up though, he’s “free thinking” now (although really he just seems like he’s flirting with “taboo” ideas and calling it “free thought”). Anyway, his latest foray into “thought experiment” proved to be a bit too much for the staff at TMZ.

Kanye sat down with TMZ to talk about his love for Trump and why he’s been flirting with going full MAGA lately:

“When you hear about slavery for 400 years—for 400 years!? That sound like a choice!” Kanye told stone-faced TMZ producers Harvey Levine and Charles Latibeaudiere, “You was there for 400 years and that’s all of y’all!?”

Kanye then asked the room if everyone felt he was “thinking free” and one respectful and emphatic TMZ staffer stood up to say, “NOPE”:

“I actually don’t think you’re thinking anything. I think what you’re doing right now is actually the absence of thought,” the staffer said, “Kanye, you’re entitled to your opinion, you’re entitled to believe whatever you want, but there is fact and real-world, real-life consequence behind everything you just said. And while you are making music and being an artist and living a life that you’ve earned by being a genius, the rest of us in society have to deal with these threats to our lives. We have to deal with the marginalization has come from the 400 years of slavery that you said for our people was a choice. Frankly, I’m disappointed, I’m appalled, and, brother, I am unbelievably hurt by the fact that you’ve morphed into something, for me, that is not real.”

A sheepish Kanye then approached the staffer saying he was sorry he hurt him while the staffer continued to press him to be responsible with his platform.

The staffer’s frustration and concern echoes what his friends, including John legend and Chrissy Teigen, have expressed following Kanye’s bizarre twitter rants. Recently Kanye tweeted a text from an unknown person who told him Republicans freed the slaves in an apparent attempt to muddy the waters over which party is better on race relations. Fortunately, John Legend and Charlemagne Tha God stepped in to provide him with some important context for the claims, including that both parties basically switched places on the issue of race in the United States in reaction to the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s.

The staffer’s frustration and concern echoes what his friends, including John Legend and Chrissy Teigen, have expressed following Kanye’s bizarre twitter rants. Recently Kanye tweeted a text from an unknown person who told him Republicans freed the slaves in an apparent attempt to muddy the waters over which party is better on race relations. Fortunately, John Legend and Charlemagne Tha God stepped in to provide him with some important context for the claims, including that both parties basically switched places on the issue of race in the United States in reaction to the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s.

Kanye doesn’t seem to know a lot about American history, particularly political history. It’s slightly depressing that someone who wants for nothing and has access to plenty of good, solid information at his fingertips—and even friends and family willing to walk him through it—refuses to educate himself. Kanye, whether for publicity or novelty, chooses to remain in ignorance masquerading as “free thought.”

Slavery was a brutal and shameful enterprise in the United States and blaming those who were subjugated for the cruelty of their oppressors is morally, factually, and historically wrong. Period. Thinking otherwise doesn’t make you a “free thinker” anymore than thinking the earth is flat.

Real “free thinkers” aren’t constantly taking the temperature of the room to figure out what taboo thought they should “think” next. Earlier in his rant to TMZ he said he started to go down the MAGA path in part because it was presented as “off limits” by so many around him. That’s not free thought, that’s reactionary thought.

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