‘Just stupid’: Yeezy employee recalls Kanye West’s ‘White Lives Matter’ stunt

Photograph courtesy of fb/kanye west former Yeezy owner Kanye West.
What really led Kanye West to wear his infamous "White Lives Matter" T-shirt at his own YZY SZN (Yeezy Season) 9 presentation in Paris on 3 October?
In a 9 November article in rollingstone.com ("Inside Kanye West's Yeezy: Abrupt Firings, Alleged Nazi Inspiration and 'Pure Chaos'"), employees at West's company Yeezy open up:
"Two Yeezy employees tell Rolling Stone about the conversations that would turn into the controversial 'White Lives Matter' T-shirts. Before leaving for Paris, the working idea was for the shirt to have a message that touched on race along the lines of 'We Are Niggerish,' one of the sources claims.
"It was definitely supposed to be something that called on race, the staffer explains, a sentiment that leaned toward making fun of white people.
"White Lives Matter [and] Candace Owens in combination just made it political, and just stupid, the staffer adds.
"West's 'White Lives Matter' stunt in Paris would kick off a tumultuous six-week period where he lost both his billionaire status and the respect of fashion and music industry peers over his continued antisemitic comments. At the end of his scorched-earth mission — which saw West aligning himself even further with right-wing polemicists like Owens and Tucker Carlson — he finally got what he apparently wanted: He gained full control over Yeezy going forward when Adidas and Gap cut him loose."
Before the debacle, West's Yeezy Adidas collaboration was overwhelmingly lucrative.
