Edited by: Fern Sidman
As rapper Kanye West continues to get a plentiful share of “bad ink” after he uttered some anti-Semitic comments while appearing on the Tucker Carlson program on Fox News last week, it now appears that the controversial music personality has dug in his heels and refuses to recant this vile remarks.
UK Broadcaster Piers Morgan Confronts Kanye West on The Controversy Swirling Around His Anti-Semitic Comments – @piersmorgan @kanyewest @antisemitism @TuckerCarlson pic.twitter.com/K8U787cOmQ
— The Jewish Voice (@JewishVoice) October 19, 2022
According to a video that went viral of Kanye being interviewed by British talk show host Piers Morgan, the rapper was totally cognizant that he uttered some pretty serious anti-Semitic threats but when pushed to the wall on this by Morgan, the rapper claimed he was “absolutely not” sorry for his remarks and remained adamantly opposed to issuing an apology, as was reported by the New York Post.
During the taping of a two-hour special for an upcoming episode of Morgan’s highly watched program, West discussed his denigrating and inflammatory comments about purported Jewish power and influence, according to the Post report.
In the viral video that was posted on Wednesday, Morgan 57, asked the 45 year old West if he regretted writing a tweet in which he vowed to go “death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE,” the Post reported.
“Are you sorry you said it?” Morgan asked, to which West replied, “No. Absolutely not.”
“You should be,” Morgan scolded his guest, prompting both men to repeat themselves several times, according to the Post report.
West did not put up any resistance when Morgan expressed to him that his hated filled remarks targeting Jews were “as racist as anything you say you’ve been through and any pain you’ve experienced,” the report indicated.
Morgan said to West, “It’s the same thing. Racism is racism. And you know that, I think, don’t you?” The Post reported that the rapper and Grammy winner then lifted his head up and replied in a smug fashion, “Yeah, that’s why I said it.”
In his attempts to elicit acknowledgment from West that his remarks were replete with prejudice, Morgan continued to press him by saying, “So you said it knowing it’s racist?”
West offered a sharp rejoinder to Morgan by telling him, “Yes. I fought fire with fire. I’m not here to get hosed down. That’s a different type of freedom fighter,” the Post reported.
At a later point during the interview, West appeared to tamp down the arrogance and offered a lukewarm apology for this remarks.
“You know, I will say I’m sorry for the people that I hurt with the defcon [comment] — the confusion that I caused. I feel like I caused hurt and confusion,” West said on the viral video, as was reported by the Post.
“And I’m sorry for the families of the people that had nothing to do with the trauma that I had been through.”
West explained to Morgan that he had been hurt and told the veteran broadcaster that “hurt people hurt people,” the Post reported.
“I wanna say that it’s wrong to hold an apology hostage, and I gotta let go of that and free myself of the trauma and say, ‘Look, I’m just gonna give it all up to God right now,’ and say to those families that I hurt, you know, ‘I really wanna give you guys a big hug … I’m sorry for hurting you with my comments,’” he went on, the Post reported.
“I wanna word it in not a political way, but in a presidential way.”
The Post reported that for the interview, Ye wore his signature “2024” baseball cap in camouflage print.
In addition to his “death con 3” tweet, the rapper also disparaged Jewish people in a since-deleted Instagram exchange with Diddy and allegedly told TMZ’s Harvey Levin back in 2018 that he “loved Hitler and the Nazis,” as was reported by the Post.
West has since been temporarily banned from both Twitter and Instagram.
