Captain America isn’t happy with
Kanye West.
After West, 41, voiced his support of eliminating the 13th Amendment — which abolished
slavery in the
United States —
Chris Evans took him to task.
“There’s nothing more maddening than debating someone who doesn’t know history, doesn’t read books, and frames their myopia as virtue,” the “Avengers” star fumed on Twitter on Sunday. “The level of unapologetic conjecture I’ve encountered lately isn’t just frustrating, it’s retrogressive, unprecedented and absolutely terrifying.”
On Saturday, the artist now known as Ye tweeted a photo of himself wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat and wrote, “this represents good and America becoming whole again. We will no longer outsource to other countries. We build factories here in America and create jobs. We will provide jobs for all who are free from prisons as we abolish the 13th amendment. Message sent with love.”
He attempted to clarify his remarks Sunday.
“The 13th Amendment is slavery in disguise, meaning it never ended. We are the solution that heals,” he tweeted, adding, “Not abolish but. Let’s amend the 13th amendment. We apply everyone’s opinions to our platform.”
“What I was saying is that the 13th Amendment is really slavery in disguise, and it’s something we need to look into, so I’m opening up the conversation,” Yeezy reiterated to TMZ on Sunday. “The principals that wrote the Constitution were Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Thomas Payne and John Adams. All white men. No women, no Jews, no black men. We need to look at it, we need to examine it.”
“The First Amendment is the right to free speech,” he continued. “But in this social media … people try to take your rights away, your right to free speech, your right to free thought, your free opinion, your free feeling.”
When TMZ’s cameraman pointed out that Abraham Lincoln added the 13th Amendment long after the Constitution was actually written, Ye quipped, “Neither of us are scholars … Lincoln, now there’s conspiracies, some people think that he might have been black, so I can’t say that Lincoln was black or white … Let’s open up the conversation and do more research [on amending the Constitution].”
West previously ranted about slavery several times this past spring.
Despite the controversy Ye’s comments may have caused, at least one person isn’t mad at him.
After being jeered and booed on “Saturday Night Live” for his pro-Donald Trump rant after the closing credits, he tweeted Sunday, “Had so much fun at SNL. Lorne [Michaels] agreed that I would host before the year is out. Need to set a date. Gonna be sooooooooo lit. In the words of Lil Pump …Esskeetit!”