{"id":1718073,"date":"2022-10-31T06:30:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T10:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1718073"},"modified":"2022-10-31T09:54:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T13:54:40","slug":"kanye-west-apologizes-for-false-claims-about-george-floyds-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kanye-west-apologizes-for-false-claims-about-george-floyds-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West \u201cApologizes\u201d for False Claims About George Floyd\u2019s Death"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fkanye-west-apologizes-for-false-claims-about-george-floyds-death%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=1718073&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--><figure class=\"caas-figure\">\n<div class=\"caas-figure-with-pb\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"caas-img-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"caas-img has-preview\" alt=\"Photo:  Everett Collection (Shutterstock)\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/31095429\/9a7ee7dade21244e94f90545d17f96ec\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/31095429\/9a7ee7dade21244e94f90545d17f96ec\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><figcaption class=\"caption-collapse\">Photo: Everett Collection (Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Friday night (Oct. 28) the paparazzi caught up with Kanye West who offered what the media is calling \u201can apology\u201d for comments he made in reference to George Floyd. If you recall, West recently declared that Floyd died from fentanyl, and not due to homicide under the knee of Derek Chauvin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I see that video as a Black person, it hurts my feelings,\u201d West said. \u201cAnd I know that police do attack [sic] and that America is generally racist. And I understand that when we got to say Black Lives Matter, the idea of it made us feel good together as a people. Now, afterwards there was some things where the money went in order to push us to the Democratic vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<p>The tainted rapper also went on to say that through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/people-and-companies-that-have-cancelled-kanye-west-1849705382\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Adidas actions\" class=\"link\">Adidas actions<\/a> and the media at large, he now understands the hurt he caused by spreading the misinformation about George Floyd\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo when I questioned the death of George Floyd, it hurt my people,\u201d he continued. \u201cI want to apologize. Because God has showed me by what adidas is doing, by what the media is doing, I know what it feels to have a knee on my neck right now.<\/p>\n<p>The comments in question were made during a recording of an episode of N.O.R.E\u2019s \u201cDrink Champs\u201d podcast that has since been scrubbed from the platform. George Floyd\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/kanye-west-gets-a-cease-desist-and-a-possible-250-mi-1849674003\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:family then sued Kanye West\" class=\"link\">family then sued Kanye West<\/a> for $250 million seeking damages for defamation and harassment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo thank you God for humbling me and letting me know how it really felt,\u201d Ye continued his speech on Friday. \u201cBecause how could the richest Black men ever be humbled other than to be made to not be a billionaire in front of everyone off a comment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Forbes, West\u2019s net worth has dropped significantly from $1.9 billion to $400 million.<\/p>\n<p>More from The Root<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theroot.com\/newsletter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Root&#039;s Newsletter.\" class=\"link\">The Root&#8217;s Newsletter.<\/a> For the latest news, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theRoot\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook\" class=\"link\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRoot\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter\" class=\"link\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/the.root\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram\" class=\"link\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/kanye-west-apologizes-for-spreading-lies-about-george-1849720920?utm_source=YPL\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here to read the full article.\" class=\"link\">Click here to read the full article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Everett Collection (Shutterstock)Friday night (Oct. 28) the paparazzi caught up with Kanye West who offered what the media is calling \u201can apology\u201d for comments he made in reference to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1718076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1718073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1718073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1718076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1718073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}