Kate Hackett
After recently sparking a wave of anti-semitism by making repeated anti-Semitic marks that saw him suspended from Twitter and Instagram, Kanye was, for some reason, invited to an interview with Piers Morgan where he made more ridiculous claims.
Albeit, these claims are significantly less harmful than what Kanye has said about Jewish people, but still. Why he has a platform remains beyond me.
He told Morgan that Quentin Tarantino’s 2012 movie Django Unchained was, in fact, his own idea.
“The idea for ‘Django’ I pitched to Jamie Foxx and Quentin Tarantino as the video for ‘Gold Digger,’” said Kanye, referencing his 2005 song. “And then Tarantino turned it into a film.”
Foxx was in the song and in its music video, which wound up being a very different concept than the one Kanye says he initially pitched. Foxx also starred in the Tarantino film with Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson and Kerry Washington several years later.
The claim comes after Morgan asked if Kanye saw any limits to free speech; the question was posed after a controversy in which Kanye wore a “White Lives Matter” shirt at Paris Fashion Week. The term is categorized as a hate slogan by the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center says it is “a racist response to the civil rights movement Black Lives Matter.”
Coupled with his anti-Semitism, the limits on Kanye’s speech do seem to be coming in. He has been removed from two social media platforms and several brands have cut ties with him.
Kanye did not speak further on his pitch to Tarantino but brought up the point to argue that free speech exists with context. He explains that DiCaprio used racial slurs in the movie but was not labeled a racist himself.
