Kanye West and Chris Cuomo spar about Jewish reviews controversy

Brady Knox

October 17, 11:05 PM Oct 17, 11:05 PM

Former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo confronted Kanye West around his controversial opinions about Jews that have been commonly condemned as antisemitic and gotten him deplatformed on a number of social media web-sites.

The rapper, who has lawfully changed his identify to Ye, appeared on Cuomo's NewsNation demonstrate to focus on his title improve, move to buy the Parler social media system, and his recent controversy about opinions about Jewish men and women. Cuomo challenged West's statements, specifically getting issue with his remark about a "Jewish underground media mafia," which the rapper repeated in his physical appearance.

"Search, there is no Jewish media, cabal, mafia. That is a figment of possibly your imagination or a projection of a prejudice. You may well have had bad company dealings with people today — it's about those people folks. It's not about their faith or religion. And I know that you happen to be intelligent and recognize that when you concentrate on persons for the reason that of their faith, other persons may well do so the exact same," Cuomo claimed in response to a tangent from West in which he explained his problems with the "media mafia."

"So we don't want to tolerate that, and you are playing into that right now irrespective of whether you know that or not," Cuomo extra.

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"And I don't tolerate it as a black individual. What you just stated was that you are hoping to say that there isn't really a collective — over 50% of the executives and CEOs in Hollywood are Jewish," West responded. "You can not notify me what to do or sense."

West also repeated his declare that he won't be able to be antisemitic due to the fact black persons are Jewish.

"I never feel in that term. 1 issue is ... I classify as Jew also, so I basically can't be an antisemite. So the phrase ... is not factual," West stated.

"I comprehend you assume that, but I don't believe that's a common comprehending, that black individuals can say whatever they want about Jewish persons," Cuomo responded.

"Jewish folks have the black voice," West stated at an additional place.

Despite the responses that lots of see as antisemitic, West maintains that he is "coming from a put of love" and "a position of 'We're not gonna be owned by the Jewish media anymore.'"

Cuomo completed the interview by inquiring about the star's psychological wellness, which West took situation with, accusing him of asking if he was behaving.

"Did you operate out this early morning?" West asked.

"No," Cuomo admitted. "But I took my medicine, but I took my antidepressant medicine that I consider each working day."

West pressured throughout the job interview that his identify was Ye and corrected Cuomo a number of times.

The rapper, style designer, and former presidential prospect has come underneath hearth lately just after building a lot of negative community reviews about Jews, which many consider are antisemitic. Owing to the comments, West has been booted from Instagram and Twitter, inspiring his current bid to invest in Parler.