While some people might find humor in Jaden Smith storming out of Kanye West’s fashion show, the reaction was certainly more mature than his father’s recent behavior.
Jaden Smith has criticised Kanye West for wearing a top emblazoned with the “White Lives Matter” slogan during his YZY SZN 9 presentation in Paris.
On Monday (3 October), the rapper, 45, staged a surprise Yeezy fashion show during Paris Fashion Week. Before the live-streamed show began, West took to the stage in the long-sleeved black shirt, which also featured an image of the Pope on the front, to give a speech.
“I am Ye, and everyone here knows that I am the leader,” he said at one point, before adding: “You can’t manage me.”
The showcase of West’s season nine collection also saw models walk the runway in white versions of the “White Lives Matter” shirt. Controversial conservative commentator Candace Owens was also in attendance at the show, where she too wore a “White Lives Matter” t-shirt.
Posting on Twitter after the show, singer and actor Smith wrote that he “had to dip lol”, adding: “True leaders lead.”
In a since-deleted tweet, he wrote: “I can’t stand behind what Kanye’s saying, he does not have the full support of the youth.”
In tweets that are still on his page at the time of writing, Smith added: “Black Lives Matter”. He also posted: “I don’t care who it is if I don’t feel the message I’m out.”
Many other social media users also criticised West’s decision to wear shirt.
As noted by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), “White Lives Matter” is a “white supremacist phrase that originated in early 2015 as a racist response to the Black Lives Matter movement”. The phrase has also been used by supporters of former president Donald Trump.
Black Lives Matter
White lives matter! But of course it is only racist cuz the word white is in there hypocrites
Why is this any different than Black Lives Matter, or Blue Lives Matter, or Asian Lives Matter or any other _____ Lives Matter? Evidently Will Smith’s Son has been really taught what Will Smith practices, and we all know what that is.
There is no such human, nor animal that is racist because there is no thing as race. All life of color is defined by the birth and rays from the sun. Only ignorance by humans can use a blatant excuse of race to force non-black people to pay for their lack of education and be given money without having to work like all other lives.
Shut this disgusting abuse by BLM and make equality the law that all must work and no one inherits free money off the backs of all working people. That is putting working people into slavery because they weren’t born near the equator to obtain darker skin. The sham must be stopped for humanity to survive equally.