Kanye West eventually apologised last night for his antisemitic tweet saying that he would go to “death con 3 on Jewish people” - but there was no mention of his later rant on Revolt TV.
Appearing on ‘Piers Morgan Uncensored’, the controversial rapper was challenged on last week’s tweet, for which he eventually apologised, but only after trying to justify it with comparisons to the racist treatment of African Americans.
In the segment, West was not challenged by Piers Morgan on a later interview in which he claimed that the “Jewish media” locked him out of social media platforms, and also claimed that “Jewish people control the black voice.” However, the full interview will only air on Friday.
Morgan opened the segment by saying that Kanye had been “cancelled” by social media platforms, and then challenged him on his tweet, to which West responded that he was being a “Karen”.
West said: “Oh my god. God forbid, God forbid one comment could cause people to feel any of the pain that my people have went through for years, even like the Blacks being ushered to the left during the Civil Rights movement. No one cared about Black people.”
Morgan agreed that African Americans have been subjected to “deplorable” racism, but added that “one form of racism does not justify another”.
West said that “it’s not racism”, to which Morgan responded: “It is racism when you say I’m ‘going death con 3 on Jewish people”.
West responded: “To clarify the truth, I was in a position where I’d been hurt, and this is the way I had the right to express myself. The point of this interview is for you to question me and then for me to answer and say ‘okay, even though the same rules do not apply to my people if a person with a gun or drugs is pulled over and has four, three other people in the car, they’re all going to jail’. I’m not gonna apply that to Jewish people for the sake of this conversation. Isn’t that what you wanted?”
West claimed that his comparison of police pulling over African Americans and his tweet referring to Jews was “brilliant”, but added: “I said for the sake of this conversation I will refer to the businesspeople who have destroyed me and my people and my fellow creatives. But you didn’t even accept that I gave you that. You tried to push me back into 1960, you tried to push me back into last week.”
Morgan then asked if West was sorry for what he said, to which he initially replied, “No, absolutely not.”
He then added: “I will say that I’m sorry for the people that I hurt with the death con... the confusion that I caused. I feel like I caused hurt and confusion, and I’m sorry for the families of the people that had nothing to do with the trauma that I had been through, and that I used my platform... I was hurt.”
Morgan gave West credit for the apology, calling him “self-aware”. He went on to say that with all his “energy and passion”, he may accidentally express himself poorly.
West then reiterated his apology to “families” he had hurt, adding: “I wanna say that I’m sorry for hurting you with my comments.”
The clip from the interview lasted just under six minutes, and Morgan did not challenge him on later comments about being “screwed by the Jewish media”, and saying, amongst other comments: “I want all the Jewish children to look at their daddy and say ‘Why is Ye mad at us?’”
The full interview with West is set to air on Talk TV on Friday.
