“I never actually told people that I like Trump when he was running, because I was bullied by Hollywood,” Ye said, sharing that people advised him to think about his children and his marriage, so he was “just biting my tongue.”
“There’s so many fathers and mothers that go to work every day, and they’re in a situation where they’re biting their tongue, because they think it will be better for their children,” Ye told Carlson. “So even me in my position, I was biting my tongue or my political opinion, because I thought it would be better for my children.”
Jason Whitlock: ‘I Wish More Men’ Were Like Kanye
Jason Whitlock, who is a podcaster and sports journalist, appeared on Carlson’s show after Ye’s interview aired. Whitlock said he believes Ye is “a man wrestling with his faith in God and wrestling with the fame that…makes him rich.”
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Whitlock explained that Ye is “a guy that’s a devout Christian” but also “a guy that is cursed with the disease of fame.” The fame in Ye’s life has “undermined his ability to be a good father, [and] it’s undermined his ability to be a good husband. It’s undermined his happiness.”
The sports journalist loves that Ye wants to be a Christian, is open about his faith, and wore a lanyard with a photo of an ultrasound on it. Whitlock said, “It scares the heck out of the left to see someone like Kanye West [who is] that popular [and] that influential, his skin color, those Christian values; because that’s what’s really under attack, his Christian values. It scares them. They don’t want him to survive.”
There are influential people who want Ye to say that he is a “left wing liberal,” but Ye refuses and instead says he likes Trump, God, and that he’s a Christian, Whitlock argued. Whitlock used the analogy of liberals whipping Ye like Kunta Kinte from the 1976 novel “Roots” until he gives in to their demands.
“They keep whipping and slashing him and they’re trying to make this man bow down to the liberal orthodoxy, and they’re doing it as a message to me and everybody else: ‘If you don’t get in line with what we want you to think, every Black man, every heterosexual Black man, every Black man with Christian values, we will beat you into a pulp. Kanye is man enough to stand up. I wish more men were.”
“What does that do to you to discover that you can be one of the richest, most famous people in the world, and you still don’t have the simple right to say what you really think,” Carlson asked Whitlock.
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“What it does to Kanye is make him realize the importance of God and his faith, because that’s the only protection you have,” Whitlock answered. “Everything the left preaches to Black people—you should be overweight, you should kill your babies in the womb, you should embrace a negative culture that teaches you to kill each other and disrespect each other—it’s a death culture. It’s a genocide. It’s demonic, just like Kanye West said. I hope he wins his battle with fame, because if he does, he’s a very important voice, Tucker.”
Sean Feucht, Owen Strachan, and Others Respond
After Ye’s interview “Let Us Worship” founder and global worship leader Sean Feucht tweeted about it, calling out American pastors for not taking a bold enough stance regarding abortion.
