On Tuesday afternoon, rapper Kanye West took to Twitter to call out the high price of college textbooks, inspired by one of his friends:
I have a friend who works really hard and makes $370 dollars a day…
Her son just got in a really good school and his textbooks are like $400 dollars each …
$400? Sounds about right.
Too real.
I mean, his mom has to work 2 days just to afford 1 book for her son …
she’s giving everything she has to make sure her son has a better future…
He even brought Steve Jobs into it:
Steve Jobs wanted to lower the cost of textbooks…
And then preached some goddamn TRUTH.
Education puts Americans into debt before they even get a chance to get started…
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We have to lower the price of textbooks…
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I’d rather teachers got paid more and books cost less … #2020
#2020?! Can we look forward to President West? Either way, Yeezy has spoken. 👏👏👏
