Kanye West in Interviews during 2017-2019
On Families & Children:
Asks staff to refrain from fornicating outside of marriage
West has made abortion a central component of his campaign, but told the paper he does not want to ban the practice, just prevent it. "You can't do that. I don't want to ban or stop or point fingers at anything." Instead he pledged "stipends for
families that need support, creating orphanages that are really high-level desirable for people to go to, and the redesign of communities and cities in general to be supporting of families," West told the paper when speaking by phone.
The rapper is so committed to reducing abortion rates that he asked his campaign staff to refrain from "fornicating" outside of marriage, people aiding his candidacy told the paper.
The rapper has a generally broad campaign platform, with more goals than specific policy initiatives. Police reform, reducing household and student loan debt and bringing prayer back into school are some of his initiatives.
Source: New York Post on 2020 presidential hopefuls
Sep 16, 2020
On Foreign Policy:
Praises Mideast peace treaties; expects Israel-Saudi next
West appears to support [Trump's son-in-law Jared] Kushner's work for the Trump administration, tweeting on Tuesday, "Jared Kushner will have done more for peace in the Middle East than anyone in 30 years," [regarding the normalization of relations
between Israel-UAE and Israel-Bahrain]. West tweeted alongside a news alert that read, "AFP: President Trump expects Saudi Arabia will join move to recognize Israel."
Source: New York Post on 2020 presidential hopefuls
Sep 16, 2020
On Abortion:
Planned Parenthood founded for eugenics against blacks
Over the past 50 years, West said, more than 22.5 million black children were aborted "strategically and on purpose.""Planned Parenthood was set up and placed in minority communities to kill black people," West asserted. West then discussed Margaret
Sanger, a founder of Planned Parenthood, whom the organization disavowed over her connections to the eugenics movement.
The rapper read a damning account of Sanger, "an avowed racist whose goal was to reduce the black population in America and she
succeeded. 80% of abortion clinics in America are in minority neighborhoods."
Planned Parenthood was co-founded by Sanger in 1916 as America's first birth control clinic. While she was beloved by feminists for her views on women's reproductive access,
she also supported eugenics, the discredited movement promoting selective breeding that often targeted people of color and the disabled.
While noting that black babies were aborted every day, West argued that "we are inside of genocide as we speak."
Source: New York Post "Page Six" on 2020 presidential hopefuls
Sep 2, 2020
On Families & Children:
The culture of humanity needs to be family
West, who is vehemently pro-life, stressed the importance of family. "Family is just the key to the world, period.
From our immediate family to our friends and family, our co-workers and family, our city and family, our state and family, our country and family, our world," the rap superstar said.
"The culture of humanity needs to be family," West continued, adding, "The design of our cities, the design of our schools, there's a lot of things designed for us to not promote family, they're designed to create separation."
Abortion has become a central component of West's campaign, and the artist continued to reference it throughout the interview.
Source: New York Post "Page Six" on 2020 presidential hopefuls
Sep 2, 2020
On Families & Children:
Birthday Lake: mothers safely experience pregnancy & birth
The next day he was asked: "with any candidate for any office, I ask, "what is it you would actually do?" He sent a handwritten outline of his plan to build an idyllic "eco-village" called Birthday Lake, which he later tweeted.
Mothers could "safely experience pregnancy & birth" there, and children could be cared for afterward. He would not say if he envisioned the government building such places.
Source: New York Post "Page Six" on 2020 presidential hopefuls
Sep 2, 2020
On Government Reform:
Liberal racists worry about splitting the black vote
Mr. West offered further detail during a recent interview with Nick Cannon, the actor and podcast host, in which he was dismissive of Mr. Biden, and said: "Let me tell you who's the most racist, the liberal racist. When a white person can tell me you're
going to split the vote, better not step past the line, boy."He also said his political aspirations would not end in 2020. "The reason why
I know eventually--eventually could be three months, eventually could be three and a half years--the reason why I eventually will make a great president is because I'm sensitive," Mr. West said. "I'm here to serve. Even as a Gemini,
I feel the energy in the room, I read body language, I read this energy, and I hurt. I hurt for the country, I hurt not just Black people, but all people of America. And I hurt for all people of the world."
Source: New York Post "Page Six" on 2020 presidential hopefuls
Sep 2, 2020
On Principles & Values:
Name "Birthday Party" means more kids with more birthdays
West explained that he made his decision to name his political party the Birthday Party because it was "about life," referencing abortion again. "The connection point to the Birthday Party is dealing with life, and pro-life, because these are kids who
are now going to get a chance to have birthdays." Kanye went on to explain that with his candidacy and promoting black motherhood, more children would be born, and thus, more children would have birthday parties.
Source: New York Post "Page Six" on 2020 presidential hopefuls
Sep 2, 2020
On Abortion:
Pay a million per kid to discourage abortion
At the event in South Carolina, West said that if he were elected president, he would fight to keep abortion legal but would strongly discourage it by offering people $1 million for every child they have.He announced a 2020 presidential bid
earlier this month, running under what he's called the "Birthday Party." According to USA Today, West told the audience at the rally: "The maximum increase would be everybody that has a baby gets a million dollars or something in that range.
Source: Insider e-zine on 2020 presidential hopefuls
Jul 20, 2020
On Drugs:
Marijuana should be free
West invited a couple of young women from the audience to speak on stage about issues that concerned them, such as education inequity and police brutality.
West also said that marijuana "should be free" and took questions from the audience before the hour-long event ended.
Source: ABC This Week coverage of 2020 presidential hopefuls
Jul 20, 2020
On Principles & Values:
You're free if you stay away from pornography and Percocet
On elections: "Freedom does not come from an election.
The freedom comes from you not loading up the pornography. The freedom comes from you not taking the Percocet," he said at one point.
Source: South China Morning Post on 2020 presidential hopefuls
Jul 20, 2020
On Abortion:
I am pro-life because I'm following the word of the Bible
On abortion: "I am pro-life because
I'm following the word of the Bible."
Source: Forbes Magazine on 2020 presidential hopefuls
Jul 8, 2020
On Civil Rights:
Never registered to vote before; Democrats "threatened" him
On being a presidential spoiler: "That is a form of racism and white supremacy and white control to say that all Black people need to be Democrat and to assume that me running is me splitting the vote. All of that information is being charged up on
social media platforms by Democrats. And Democrats used to tell me, the same Democrats have threatened me. The reason why this is the first day I registered to vote is because I was scared. I was told that if I voted on Trump my music career would
be over. I was threatened into being in one party. I was threatened as a celebrity into being in one party. I was threatened as a Black man into the Democratic party. And that's what the
Democrats are doing, emotionally, to my people. Threatening them to the point where this white man can tell a Black man if you don't vote for me, you're not Black."
Source: Forbes Magazine on 2020 presidential hopefuls
Jul 8, 2020
On Crime:
I'm against the death penalty
On criminal justice: "'Thou shalt not kill.'
I'm against the death penalty."
Source: Forbes Magazine on 2020 presidential hopefuls
Jul 8, 2020
On Crime:
One of my to-do lists is to end police brutality
One of my to-do lists is to end police brutality. The police are people, too. In the George Floyd case, there was a Black guy that went to jail and it was his first day on the force. If it's your first day on the force and this cop with 18 violations
already starts filing out, are you going to jump in front of that person and lose your job that same day? He probably didn't realize that the cop was going to take it that far. I'm one of the few Black people that would speak openly like this.
Source: Forbes Magazine on 2020 presidential hopefuls
Jul 8, 2020
On Education:
Reinstate the fear and love of God in all schools
Reinstate in God's state, in God's country, the fear and love of God in all schools and organizations and you chill the fear and love of everything else. So that was a plan by the Devil to have our kids committing suicide at an all-time high by removing
God, to have murders in Chicago at an all-time high because the human beings working for the Devil removed God and prayer from the schools. That means more drugs, more murders, more suicide.
Source: Forbes Magazine on 2020 presidential hopefuls
Jul 8, 2020
On Environment:
Chemicals affect our ability to be of service to God
On environment: "Clean up the chemicals.
In our deodorant, in our toothpaste, there are chemicals that affect our ability to be of service to God."
Source: Forbes Magazine on 2020 presidential hopefuls
Jul 8, 2020
On Health Care:
Vaccines are the mark of the beast
On vaccines: "It's so many of our children that are being vaccinated and paralyzed. So when they say the way we're going to fix Covid is with a vaccine, I'm extremely cautious. That's the mark of the beast. They want to put chips inside of us,
they want to do all kinds of things, to make it where we can't cross the gates of heaven. I'm sorry when I say they, the humans that have the Devil inside them. And the sad thing is that we all won't make it to heaven."
Source: Forbes Magazine on 2020 presidential hopefuls
Jul 8, 2020
On Principles & Values:
Trump allowing God to still be part of the conversation
On President Donald Trump: "Trump is the
closest president we've had in years to allowing God to still be part of the conversation."
Source: Forbes Magazine on 2020 presidential hopefuls
Jul 8, 2020
On Principles & Values:
God appoints the president
On the 2020 election: "Let's see if the appointing is at 2020 or if it's 2024--because God appoints the president. If I win in 2020 then it was God's appointment. If I win in 2024 then that was God's appointment."
Source: Forbes Magazine on 2020 presidential hopefuls
Jul 8, 2020
On Principles & Values:
I put everything I get on the line to serve God
On the presidential race: "I just gracefully suggest y'all bow out--Trump and Biden, gracefully bow out.
It's God's country, we are doing everything in service to God, nobody but God no more. I am in service of our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ, and I put everything I get on the line to serve God."
Source: Forbes Magazine on 2020 presidential hopefuls
Jul 8, 2020
On War & Peace:
I'm focused on protecting America with our great military
On foreign policy: "I haven't developed it yet.
I'm focused on protecting America, first, with our great military. Let's focus on ourselves first."
Source: Forbes Magazine on 2020 presidential hopefuls
Jul 8, 2020
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