{"id":1678610,"date":"2022-10-07T16:32:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T20:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1678610"},"modified":"2022-10-07T16:34:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T20:34:25","slug":"whos-really-fighting-to-make-black-lives-healthier-and-better-kanye-west-or-lizzo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whos-really-fighting-to-make-black-lives-healthier-and-better-kanye-west-or-lizzo\/","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s Really Fighting To Make Black Lives Healthier And Better, Kanye West Or Lizzo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhos-really-fighting-to-make-black-lives-healthier-and-better-kanye-west-or-lizzo%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1678610&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Kanye West railed against the pro-fat movement, which is afflicting black Americans at a higher rate than any other group, Thursday night in a prime-time interview with Tucker Carlson.<\/p>\n<p>In their wide-ranging discussion, West, a rapper and a rising icon in the fashion industry who is also known as Ye, slammed the media\u2019s obsessive efforts to normalize obesity in the 21st century. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cLizzo works with my trainer,\u201d West said. \u201cWhen Lizzo loses 10 pounds and announces it, the bots, that\u2019s a term for people like telemarketer callers on Instagram, they attack her for losing weight because the media wants to put out a perception that being overweight is the new goal when it\u2019s actually unhealthy.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"Ht1SzjU489OeXPrABWyLQwxi2mFv0uahNg6qs53G7cDJfMTRblVZEok\"><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s get aside the fact of whether it\u2019s fashion, en vogue, which it\u2019s not. Let\u2019s just \u2014 or if someone thinks it\u2019s attractive, to each his own,\u201d West continued. \u201cIt\u2019s actually clinically unhealthy, and for people to promote that, it\u2019s demonic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carlson pressed the celebrity on why the media and industry at large are so consumed with glorifying obesity. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy do you think they would want to promote unhealthiness among the population?\u201d Carlson asked. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a genocide of the black race,\u201d West said. \u201cThey want to kill us in any way they can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The notoriously pro-life pop star went on to trash Planned Parenthood, the nation\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2017\/may\/15\/glenn-grothman\/glenn-grothman-says-planned-parenthood-leading-abo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">largest <\/a>abortion provider, and the organization\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/08\/31\/study-public-schools-hide-planned-parenthoods-extermination-of-the-unfit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">roots<\/a> in \u201ceugenics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that if we saw ourselves as more \u2014 if we saw ourselves as a people, and not a race, then we would treat our people better,\u201d West said. <\/p>\n<p>That the media\u2019s compulsive promotion of obesity is motivated by anti-black racism is a stretch. Coverage framing obesity as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JusticeTristan\/status\/1345964956206948352?s=20&amp;t=Zr839TC712QBFLaWULvKKQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">healthy<\/a> is far likelier a consequence of apathy towards weight gain among Americans, at least <a href=\"https:\/\/nccd.cdc.gov\/dnpao_dtm\/rdPage.aspx?rdReport=DNPAO_DTM.ExploreByTopic&amp;islClass=OWS&amp;islTopic=&amp;go=GO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">66 percent<\/a> of whom are considered, at minimum, overweight. Nearly 42 percent of U.S. adults are categorically obese, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/obesity\/data\/adult.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a> to the Centers for Disease Control. But on the broad issue of the pro-fat movement dubbed \u201cbody positivity,\u201d West makes an important point in an area where racial dynamics are still at play. <\/p>\n<p>By the modern left\u2019s standards, the media\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/09\/22\/by-the-lefts-standards-the-pro-fat-movement-is-institutional-racism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">embrace of the pro-fat movement is institutional racism<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/obesity\/data\/adult.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CDC data shows<\/a> black and Hispanic minorities have the highest age-adjusted prevalence of obesity of any group. Fifty percent of black Americans are considered obese in addition to nearly 46 percent of Hispanics.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, there is no shortage of examples of <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/09\/03\/sweetgreen-controversy-is-another-bizarre-case-of-hostility-towards-health-and-fitness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bizarre and growing hostility<\/a> towards the active promotion of healthy lifestyles \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/12\/15\/outrage-over-lizzos-juice-cleanse-highlights-a-strange-new-hostility-towards-health-and-fitness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">even<\/a> when Lizzo, an icon of the deadly pro-fat movement, does something productive for her own health. And the pro-fat movement<em> is<\/em> deadly. Those who are overweight or obese are at a higher risk of high blood pressure, cancers, diabetes, stroke, coronary heart disease, breathing problems, high cholesterol, and mental illness to name a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/healthyweight\/effects\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">few<\/a>, all while rendered sedentary in the immediate future. <\/p>\n<p>Pop culture, however, continues to dismiss the American obesity crisis as not a crisis at all. Magazines from <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/14\/self-magazine-pitches-obesity-as-future-of-fitness-while-covid-kills-obese-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Self<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/01\/04\/cosmopolitan-magazine-pitches-obesity-to-women-despite-heightened-covid-risk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cosmopolitan<\/a> have published cover series pitching obesity to women. Just last month, California\u2019s largest school district <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/15\/l-a-schools-push-childhood-obesity-in-bizarre-video-promoting-donuts-as-healthy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published<\/a> a video to its more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ca.gov\/ds\/ad\/ceflargesmalldist.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">half a million<\/a> students, shaming those who suggest nutritious choices over \u201cbad food\u201d such as donuts. Never mind that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/obesity\/data\/childhood.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1 in 5<\/a> children nationwide is already considered obese. <\/p>\n<p>West\u2019s commentary on the issue is a sharp break from the growing list of cultural influencers who grow their followings by capitalizing on a sick and apathetic population. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kanye West railed against the pro-fat movement, which is afflicting black Americans at a higher rate than any other group, Thursday night in a prime-time interview with Tucker Carlson. 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