Kanye West paid tribute to his wife Kim Kardashian in a speech about racism and interracial relationships at The BET Honors on Saturday evening, while accepting the Visionary Award at the event. Read excerpts from his speech below:
‘For us to focus on the idea of love and not the idea of separation,’ Kanye explained, before going into further detail about the stigma surrounding interracial relationships that he had encountered growing up.’
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“At the barbershop… I used to hear people always talking about, “Man you know when an entertainer get on, of course you know he gon’ go and get a white girl and blah blah blah and a white girl gon’ get a rich black dude.
Appearing to reference his own rap song Gold Digger, he then added about his wife Kim: ‘But I wanna say that my wife has dated broke black dudes. It got nothing to do with the money.”
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