Conservative podcaster Candace Owens released an interview she had with rapper in 2022 that she hadn’t shared until Wednesday. During the tell-all, Kanye was questioned about Kamala Harris and what his thoughts were on the politician. When questioned, Kanye spoke affectionately about Harris, admitting, “[I] saw my mother in that picture,” referencing a photo of the politician that was in an ad when she was running for office in 2020.
“I wanted to vote for her, I almost forgot I was running.” Kanye inserted himself in the race to the White House in 2020 also. He continued to praise Harris, telling Candace that the potential first woman president is “what Black people wanted Kamala to be.
” Elsewhere in the interview, the Hip-Hop star and Right-wing politico hit out at the Jewish community once more, commenting on the “Jewish executives” who they believed to be “controlling the Black voice.” series of , which kickstarted in late 2022, bled over into early 2023. At the height of the -winning artist’s controversial criticism of the Jewish community, he joined Candace for a sit-down interview in October 2022.
During what Candace dubbed their “forbidden conversation” the two ranted about the “Jewish abortion rate,” which Kanye said was not “at the same level as the Black abortion rate.” The Good Music founder went on to specify the reasoning behind his anti-semitic criticism. “The reason why I specifically say the Jewish people,” Kanye explained, “is the Jewish people, like how the Armenians worked in the Meatpacking District, the Jewish people came into power in the 1980s—truly you know when the divorces started happening—because of Wall Street.
” Kanye then tried to clear up his 2022 X post, where he wrote, “death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE,” appearing to refer to the Defcon military alert. “I was going to go one by one and the reason I said it like that is just to say I know you guys are going to call this antisemitic,” he revealed, noting that he wasn’t “afraid of that title now” and will “lean into” it. Kanye confessed that after publicly making those opinions he had got an offer to visit the Holocaust museum.
“I want you to go to our Holocaust Museum, Planned Parenthood, like we’re still in the Holocaust, six million Jew-ish,” he said, revealing how he replied to the offer. Intentionally splitting the word “Jewish” into two syllables, he claimed that “people died in the Holocaust over 20 million darker Jews, Black people have been aborted.”.
