*Kanye West has many fans wondering: Who is Claudette Colvin? — after his recent Q&A session on the Clubhouse social audio app.
West (now officially known as Ye) has been banned from the platform after ranting about the Jewish community during his 50-minute conversation with Wack100. The rapper reportedly charged $20 to access the interview.
During the discussion, Kanye blamed the Jews who control the media for creating social “outrage” and “trauma”
“We know all of these things and they use these media outlets to outrage. Outrage is an economy, the trauma economy. What death are we gonna promote this week? It ain’t like 14 people are getting killed every week in Chicago. But no, we’re going to publicize this on our– I’m not gonna say whose platform it is. It was the Jews,” he said, as reported by Sports Keeda.
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Kanye calls Rosa Parks “a plant” controlled by the media against black people to create trauma pic.twitter.com/A2vBKjm3iG
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Elsewhere in the conversation, Ye called civil rights icon Rosa Parks a government “plant.”
“All of these heroes man– it’s only one. That’s Jesus Christ. You’re gonna find out something about MLK, something about JFK, something about Malcolm, Rosa Parks. We know Rosa Parks was a plant,” he said.
Parks is famously known for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus, a move that resulted in her arrest. Parks’ activism fueled the Montgomery bus boycott.
In the same year that Parks made headlines, Claudette Colvin was the first individual to be arrested for acting defiantly on a segregated bus by refusing to give up her seat to a white woman.
Before Rosa Parks 15-Year-Old Claudette Colvin Gave Up Her Seat 9 Months Earlier https://t.co/S63oA17eqf
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The long-held belief among many scholars, historians, and civil rights advocates has been that the government and the NAACP used Parks as the face of the movement due to colorism because Parks was a light-skinned woman and Colvin was darker in complexion.
Here’s more from Sports Keeda:
Claudette Colvin, 83, is a retired nurse’s aide who is considered a pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement. She was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery after she refused to give her seat to a Caucasian woman on a segregated bus in March 1955.
Nearly nine months before Parks made headlines for rejecting bus driver James F. Blake’s order to give up seats in the “colored” section of a segregated bus for a Caucasian passenger after the “White” section was filled, Colvin was arrested for similar reasons in another identical public vehicle.
Colvin reportedly screamed that it was her constitutional right not to vacate the seat during the arrest. The teen was initially charged with disturbing the peace, violating segregation laws, as well as battering and assaulting a police officer. Her arrest record and adjudication for delinquency was expunged in 2021, 66 years after she was wrongfully charged.
You read more about Claudette Colvin here or watch the clip below.
