Yesterday, Kanye West made the very obtuse statement that he thought slavery was "a choice."
Kanye thinks slavery was "a choice"
Twitter reacted quickly and passionately after the footage went viral.
If you really loved someone, you'd hold them ACCOUNTABLE. Y'all doing all sorts of mental gymnastics to defend Kanye West and his loud, erroneous, ahistorical ass statements. Unacceptable. –And this is coming from someone who's been a fan since the Freshman Adjustment days.
Which caused Kanye to backtrack and further explain his statement.
to make myself clear. Of course I know that slaves did not get shackled and put on a boat by free will
My point is for us to have stayed in that position even though the numbers were on our side means that we were mentally enslaved
if this was 148 years ago I would have been more like Harriet or Nat
But by this point Twitter users had already turned Kanye's statement into an epic hashtag, #IfSlaveryWereAChoice.
And despite slavery being a horrendously dark time in our country's history, Black Twitter managed to find some hilarious alternate scenarios for a reality in which slavery was a choice...
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#IfSlaveryWasAChoice White man: come to my plantation! Me: how much y’all pay White man: it’s an unpaid internsh- Me: https://t.co/qF8ISOm5K3
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#IfSlaveryWasAChoice MASSA: SAY BOY! GET OVER HERE AND... ME:
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Me switching to a Carnival Cruise instead of the Amistad #IfSlaveryWasAChoice
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#IfSlaveryWasAChoice Friend: You coming to the plantation today? Me:
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When Massa away and you sneak into his room and try on his clothes #IfSlaveryWasAChoice
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When I get sold to another plantation and my copickers ask me how I’m liking the job so far. #IfSlaveryWasAChoice
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When Massa says a racist joke but you need more hours on the cotton field #IfSlaveryWasAChoice
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#IfSlaveryWasAChoice Massa: Hey you think you can pull overtime? Me:
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When your cousin from the next plantation pull up bumpin the new spirituals #IfSlaveryWasAChoice
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