Kanye West’s bizarre acceptance speech for the Visionary Award at the 2015 BET Honors
The award was saluting his excellence as a creative, yet he spent much of his speech telling people that Kim Kardashian’s dad helped get OJ Simpson off and that Kim Kardashian has dated broke Black dudes. You know, I can understand Kanye’s initial urge to defend his wife given she doesn’t have the best reputation – for reasons unfair and rightly so – but at one point does one decide to stop defending their wife and their interracial relationship? I imagine after a baby, a wedding, and the realization that not many people really give a damn about them being married. Black people let Olivia Pope cook and we love Mariah Carey. Why are you pressed about this, Kanye? Oh, you’re insecure. How could one forget?
