While making Kanye West shared a kiss with his wife as he received the
Visionary Award at the 2015 BET Honors , which was broadcast
yesterday night after being taped last month.
For his acceptance speech, Mr West turned to a human rights
activist...lol. Kanye began by saying he felt humbled for the
first time in his life and then used his relationship with Kim,
who is a “person not of color” to talk about race and
separatism. He thanked Kim and told everyone that she wasn't
in a relationship with him for his fame or fortune
“My wife has dated broke black dudes so it ain’t got
nothing to do with the money.”
He shared a story Kim once told him about her father Robert
Kardashian being deemed a “n*gger lover” for representing
O.J. Simpson. Kanye said, “We deal with racism because there
are different races. Or the micro of it is that we focus on the
different races, as opposed to the macro, which is the human
race.” Making reference to some of his past controversial
remarks, Kanye said “race” and “people’s perception of
celebrity” have been used to stop him from being
“empowered,” and argued that the worth of black people have
been misrepresented. He even said, “Harriet Tubman could
have freed more if they only knew they weren’t free.” West
went on, “So don’t think that because we can afford this
custom Balmain suit that we’re free. And don’t think that
because we can buy a $300,000 car that we’re free. And don’t
think because three percent of a gated community has colored
people in it that we’re free.”
“It’s the mentality, the slave mentality, that we all eventually
become slaves to that car, slaves to the perception, slaves to
the idea of being cool,” West continued. He concluded, “Our
power, our oil, since we don’t own any oil, is our expression, is
our influence. Don’t never let them take that away. And when
we have the chance to express it and influence, don’t just do it
for us. Do it for the human race.
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