Discussion on Antisemitism and Kanye West

Thank you.

Thank you very much for being here.

Uh, b-before I start tonight, I just wanted to read

a brief statement that I prepared.

I denounce antisemitism in all its forms.

And I stand with my friends in the Jewish community.

And that,

Kanye-

... is how you buy yourself some time.

I gotta tell you guys,

I probably been doing this, uh, 35 years now,

and early in my career I learned that there are two words

in the English language that you should never say together in

sequence, and those

words

are the and Jews.

I've never heard someone do good after they said that.

Kanye's got into some scrapes before.

Normally when he, when he's in trouble I pull up,

I pull up immediately.

But this time I was like, "You know what?

Uh, let me see what's gonna happen first." I

just wanna see.

Just wanna see where this is all going.

I can't even remember how it started.

Vaguely I remember it started with a tweet, strange tweet.

It was like, um, "I'm feeling a little sleepy."

"I'ma get me some rest, but

when I wake up,

I'm gonna go Defcon 3-

-on the Jews."

And then he just went to bed.

I was up all night worried. What is he gonna do to the Jews?

I grew up around Jewish people.

I have a lot of Jewish friends. So I'm not freaked out by your culture.

I know a little bit about it just from hanging around.

Be like, "Yo, yo, let's go out after school tomorrow."

They'd be like, "We can't go

out. It's Shananah tomorrow." I'd be like, "What?"

"What is Shananah?"

I had so many questions. Why do some of your people dress like Run

DMC?

Kanye woke up from that nap, he went right to work.

A year ago I'd seen him on a podcast called Drink Champs.

Uh, great show. Uh, a-and it was, it was a amazing appearance.

Uh, Noriega and them were there, the rappers that I love,

and they all had their

gold chains and stuff on.

And, uh, Kanye said, "Only millionaires wear chains." They

said, "What?"

He said, "I'm a billionaire."

"Billionaires don't wear their money on their body." I tucked my chain in, I

said, "Oh, snap."

Yeah. It was a good appearance. It was fun and funny.

But when he woke up, he went on Drink Champs again.

This time he was on one.

He was mad about something. He said, "I can say

antisemitic things

and Adidas can't drop me. Now what?"

Mm.

Adidas dropped that nigga immediately.

Ironically, Adidas was founded by Nazis.

And they were offended.

I guess the student surpassed the teacher.

It's a big deal.

He had broken show business rules.

This is a rule, you know, the rules of perception.

If, if they're Black, then it's a gang. If they're Italian, it's a mob.

But if they're Jewish, it's a coincidence

and you should never speak about it.

Kanye got in so much trouble, Kyrie got in trouble.

Whoo!

Kyrie, Kyrie Irving posted a, a, a link to a movie that he

had seen on Amazon. No caption on the post

or nothing like that, but

apparently this movie had some, I don't know, antisemitic tropes or

something. It was some weird title, like From Hebrew to Negro or something.

And the NBA told him he should apologize, and he was slow to apologize.

And then the list of demands to get back in their good graces got longer and

longer, and this, this is where, you know, I draw the line.

I know the Jewish people have been through terrible things all over the world, but,

but, but, but you can't blame that on Black Americans.

You just,

you just can't.

Whoo.

You know what I mean? Thanks to the one person that said whoo.

A fair punishment would be he should just post a link to Schindler's List and y'all

write your own captions.

'Cause Kyrie Irving's Black ass was nowhere near the Holocaust.

In fact, he's not even certain it existed.

I saw one

news pundit screaming about Kanye.

She said, "Mental health is no excuse for that type of

language."

Yes, it is, bitch.

You can kill somebody if you're mentally ill.

Yeah.

Listen, okay, I don't think Kanye is crazy at all.

I think he's possibly not well.

Well, I've been to Hollywood.

Don't want y'all to get mad at me, I'm just telling you.

This is, I've been to Hollywood. This, this is just what I saw.

It's a lot of Jews.

Like, a lot.

But that didn't mean anything. You know what I mean?

There's a lot of Black people in Ferguson, Missouri. Doesn't mean we run the place.

I could see if you had some kind of issue. You know what I mean?

You might go out to Hollywood, and your mind might start connecting some

kind of

lines. And you could maybe adopt the delusion

that the Jews

run show business. It's not a crazy thing to think.

But it's a crazy thing to say out loud- ... in a crowd like this.

Nobody listens to me. When I tell these jokes, you ignore me.

My first Netflix special, what did I say?

I said, "I don't want a sneaker deal.

'Cause the minute I say something that makes those people mad,

they're gonna take

my sneakers away." And the whole crowd was like, "Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha."

When they see Kanye walking around LA barefoot with his chain out.

This guy lost a billion and a half dollars in a

day.

Oh.

A billion and a half dollars in a day.

I saw that, I said, "Put your chain on, nigga.

Welcome back."

It shouldn't be this scary to talk

about anything.

It's making my job incredibly difficult.

And to be honest with you, I'm getting sick

of talking to a crowd like this. I love you to death, and I thank you

for your support,

and I hope they don't take anything away from me.

Whoever they are.