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And Finally
West hits out at PETA, sort of
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 1 February 2010
It’s quite unusual for a celebrity to publicly take on animal rights charity PETA. Normally you either sign up to one of their high profile anti-fur or anti-meat ad campaigns, or you give them a wide berth and just pray they won’t cover you in red paint the next time you wear an animal skin to an awards show. But Kanye West never lets convention get in the way when it comes to having a good rant.
Though it should be said this particular online rant is a bit abstract, but seems to be a response to PETA hitting out at him and his girlfriend Amber Tose wearing animal pelts during a recent Men’s Fashion Week show in Paris. The animal rights people called the hip hopper a “pathetic idiot” for donning an animal skin at the event.
In a post on his website on Friday, which has since been removed, West reportedly rambled thus: “When it’s all said and done, remember the fearless, remember the dreamers, remember those who represent the ghetto. The fairy tale of nothing to something. I’m briefly saddened by negative comments, but I have to remember those people are scared, incapable or just plain idiots. We are the fucking rock stars baby. It’s funny to me when fashion bloggers down our outfits and then super jock outlandish shit on the runway but they dress mad prude and don’t live fashion”.
He continued: “Very few human beings are strong enough to take constant hate. If we don’t do what you feel is the shit, you beat us up verbally and mentally. At the end of the day, who are we hurting? Since Barack is president, blacks don’t like fur coats, red leather and fried chicken any more? Remember, clothing is a choice. We were born naked! Fresh is an opinion, love is objective, taste is selective and expression is my favourite elective”.
So, there you go. By the way, those charges against West and his manager Don Crowley relating to that pap scuffle at LAX airport last September have been formally dropped because the pair have fulfilled community service obligations committed to in a plea bargain with an LA judge. I look forward to seeing what kind of scuffle occurs when PETA get round to targeting Kanye with the red paint.
