“I’m a bit sleep tonight but when I wake up I’m going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE The funny thing is I actually can’t be ANTI Semitic because Black people are actually Jew also You Guys have toyed with me and tried to Black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda.”
Kanye West Ye Canceled For Anti-Semitic Remarks
This is the tweet that brought down Ye, his multi-billion dollar empire and destroyed his relationships with many around him. He has lost his business deals due to these anti-semitic remarks. Formally known as Kanye West, many people in the world and entertainment industry have overlooked his erratic public behavior for years either out of sympathy because of his mental struggles or because of business dealings with him. But his recent anti-semitic remarks went too far and many people and companies decided to sever all ties with the superstar.
Fashion house Balenciaga set the ball rolling and a slew of other companies followed suit. Gap, Creative Arts Agency-CAA, MRC Entertainment, T.J. Maxx, Foot Locker, JPMorgan Chase, Def Jam, Peloton, Jaylen Brown and Aaron Donald/Donda Sports, Vogue and Anna Wintour, and Madame Tussauds London all ended their affiliations with Ye.
Adidas didn’t cancel Ye immediately and amidst the backlash, he instead said in a recent podcast, “I can say antisemitic things and Adidas can’t drop me.” Adidas had no choice but to drop him. Adidas had faced the most pressure to cut ties because of its lucrative partnership with the rapper. Through royalties earned from the sale of Yeezy products, Ye’s stake in the partnership was valued at around $1.5 billion.
Earlier, he was kicked out of Instagram and he hopped over to Twitter and went at Mark Zuckerberg with this tweet. “Look at this Mark. How you gone kick me off instagram. You use to be my nigga.” He was later kicked out of Twitter too.
Not only companies ended their relationships with Ye. Many celebrities including his ex-wife, Kim Kadarshian condemned his behavior and her family disavowed him. His on-going projects and scheduled appearances including a concert at Sofi Stadium, a Fox News documentary and interviews on The Shop and Drink Champs have all been canceled. Ye has also been banned from Fox News, Daily Wire, KANO STEM player, Skechers and boycotted by WME and UTA. His assistant and lawyer also cut ties with him.The world wasn’t done yet with Ye. Madame Tussauds removed its wax figure of the rapper from public view.
However, not everyone has turned their backs on Ye. Donda Academy, Ye’s private Christian K-12 prep school didn’t exactly cut ties with him but did reportedly shut down Oct. 27 for the rest of the school year. Though Spotify CEO Daniel Ek condemned the rapper’s remarks in an interview, calling his commentary “awful” he explained that Ye’s music would not be removed from the streaming platform as the music itself does not violate Spotify’s policy.
All these losses in deals have brought Ye almost to his knees and it was not a surprise that he lost his billionaire status. Forbes announced he was no longer a billionaire saying that The superstar rapper no longer has a place on the Forbes Billionaires’ list now that his lucrative deal with Adidas is over.
ABOUT FLORENCE MAFOMEMEH – FOUNDER, OWNER AND EDITOR OF BNN
Florence Mafomemeh is the founder, owner and editor of Black Nation News – BNN
Mafomemeh is a multimedia, backpack journalist and three-time B Free award-winning community video producer. She produces long and short form video and audio stories and writes news for broadcast and online media. She is very passionate about stories that impact the lives of ordinary people.
A native of Cameroon in West Africa, Mafomemeh wanted to become a journalist since the time she was in secondary school. As a news junkie, she realized that news hardly reach all ordinary people and their stories were not being told. She told herself that she would be a journalist so that she would bring the news to them and give them a voice by telling their stories to the world.
Growing up, Mafomemeh watched, read and listened to a lot of national and international news and used much of her pocket allowance to buy international news magazines like Time and Complete Football International. In order to not miss the news, she slept with a small radio under her pillow and usually left a tape for news to be recorded for her when she was not at home.
Currently living in New York City, Mafomemeh graduated from Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY in 2019 with a master’s degree in Journalism. While in school, she produced radio and TV News stories on deadline as a one-man band. She also reported news stories around New York City for the NYCITY News Service. Florence was also a news reporter and co-anchor for 219 West, a TV News Magazine that aired on CUNY-TV.
As a field Community video Producer at Brooklyn Free Speech TV, Mafomemeh produces news stories that highlight issues in East New York and New York City. Her stories have had eight B Free Award nominations and three wins – The George Stoney B Free Awards for Social Impact and B-Informed, and The B Free People’s Choice Award. Florence has also freelanced for NYCPolitics.com and was a NYS Election Reporting Fellow with the Center for Community Media at CUNY.
Mafomemeh also has a B.S. in Broadcast Journalism from CUNY- Brooklyn College, a B.A. in English, and an M.A. in the Literatures in English and Commonwealth nations from the University of Yaounde 1 in Cameroon. She specialized/majored in Caribbean Literature, focusing on the West Indies where she did her dissertation on the works of V.S. Naipaul. She also has certificates in journalism, community news production & reporting, proofreading and editing 101 from New York University-SCPS, People’s Production House and Teacher’s College, Columbia University.
While at people’s Production House, Mafomemeh was radio reporter and co-host of Global Movements Urban Struggles-GMUS on WBAI Radio. GMUS was a show that tackled various issues facing various communities in New York City and around the United States.
Having lived through many challenging experiences and seeing people going through them everyday, Mafomemeh is passionate about telling stories that matter. She is fulfilling her childhood dream of telling ordinary people’s stories that impact their lives and help to inspire others.
I hope you have a great time here on BNN and find something to take with you even if it is just a good laugh! Please, do not forget to subscribe to/sign up for the newsletter with your e-mail address to receive notifications of new posts. Please, also show me some love by sharing the link to the site.
Also check out my personal blog at Talking Point With Florence where you can also see the “MORE YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ME” blog post of November 2, 2013.
ABOUT FLORENCE MAFOMEMEH – FOUNDER, OWNER AND EDITOR OF BNN
Florence Mafomemeh is the founder, owner and editor of Black Nation News – BNN
Mafomemeh is a multimedia, backpack journalist and three-time B Free award-winning community video producer. She produces long and short form video and audio stories and writes news for broadcast and online media. She is very passionate about stories that impact the lives of ordinary people.
A native of Cameroon in West Africa, Mafomemeh wanted to become a journalist since the time she was in secondary school. As a news junkie, she realized that news hardly reach all ordinary people and their stories were not being told. She told herself that she would be a journalist so that she would bring the news to them and give them a voice by telling their stories to the world.
Growing up, Mafomemeh watched, read and listened to a lot of national and international news and used much of her pocket allowance to buy international news magazines like Time and Complete Football International. In order to not miss the news, she slept with a small radio under her pillow and usually left a tape for news to be recorded for her when she was not at home.
Currently living in New York City, Mafomemeh graduated from Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY in 2019 with a master’s degree in Journalism. While in school, she produced radio and TV News stories on deadline as a one-man band. She also reported news stories around New York City for the NYCITY News Service. Florence was also a news reporter and co-anchor for 219 West, a TV News Magazine that aired on CUNY-TV.
As a field Community video Producer at Brooklyn Free Speech TV, Mafomemeh produces news stories that highlight issues in East New York and New York City. Her stories have had eight B Free Award nominations and three wins – The George Stoney B Free Awards for Social Impact and B-Informed, and The B Free People’s Choice Award. Florence has also freelanced for NYCPolitics.com and was a NYS Election Reporting Fellow with the Center for Community Media at CUNY.
Mafomemeh also has a B.S. in Broadcast Journalism from CUNY- Brooklyn College, a B.A. in English, and an M.A. in the Literatures in English and Commonwealth nations from the University of Yaounde 1 in Cameroon. She specialized/majored in Caribbean Literature, focusing on the West Indies where she did her dissertation on the works of V.S. Naipaul. She also has certificates in journalism, community news production & reporting, proofreading and editing 101 from New York University-SCPS, People’s Production House and Teacher’s College, Columbia University.
While at people’s Production House, Mafomemeh was radio reporter and co-host of Global Movements Urban Struggles-GMUS on WBAI Radio. GMUS was a show that tackled various issues facing various communities in New York City and around the United States.
Having lived through many challenging experiences and seeing people going through them everyday, Mafomemeh is passionate about telling stories that matter. She is fulfilling her childhood dream of telling ordinary people’s stories that impact their lives and help to inspire others.
I hope you have a great time here on BNN and find something to take with you even if it is just a good laugh! Please, do not forget to subscribe to/sign up for the newsletter with your e-mail address to receive notifications of new posts. Please, also show me some love by sharing the link to the site.
Also check out my personal blog at Talking Point With Florence where you can also see the “MORE YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ME” blog post of November 2, 2013.
