Monday at a recent fashion show in Paris, Kanye West and Candace Owens of The Daily Wire made a statement to the world while wearing shirts with the words “White Lives Matter” printed on the backs of their bodies.
Alongside models wearing complementary tops, Owens, the rapper, and the fashion designer sported the T-shirts, which also had an image of the Pope’s visage on the front. Although the slogan, which is a twist on the “Black Lives Matter” movement, enraged the radical left trolls on social media, West and Owens were nothing but smiles during the entire performance.
“I am Ye, and everyone here knows that I am the leader,” West said at the event, according to Page Six. “You can’t manage me.”
Kanye West wearing a White Lives Matter hoodie‼️😳 pic.twitter.com/9Xr7UCQAdF
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While advocating for other radical ideals like dismantling the nuclear family, the BLM movement has resisted police enforcement.
Candace Owens, widely known as the host of the podcast “Candace Owens,” has been one of the most vocal opponents to the Black Lives Matter movement. She has argued that the organization used the murder of George Floyd for it’s own personal gain and incited the famous riots that ripped throughout the nation in the summer of 2020.
Former ESPN personality Jemele Hill blasted the pair over Twitter calling it “a dangerously dumb message to send for someone with [West’s] massive platform.”
But neither West nor Owens cares for what the trolls on the internet have to say.
West, who in 2018 tweeted, “I love the way Candace Owens thinks,” made headlines in 2013 when several pieces of merchandise from his Yeezus tour included Confederate symbolism.
“The Confederate flag represented slavery in a way,” he said at the time. “That’s my abstract take on what I know about it, right? So I wrote the song, ‘New Slaves.’ So I took the Confederate flag and made it my flag. It’s my flag now. Now what you gonna do?”
“It’s colorless also,” West added. “It’s super-‘hood and super-white-boy-approved at the same time.”
