Singer Kanye West took direct aim at Planned Parenthood this week, saying the organization was set up intentionally to kill Black people and that it’s founder, Margaret Sanger, was a white supremacist.
“In 50 years, there’s been 22 million — over 22,500,000 — black people aborted strategically and on purpose. Planned Parenthood was set up and placed in minority communities to kill black people,” West said during an interview with Nick Cannon on Cannon’s podcast Cannon’s Class.
“According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, abortion kills more black people than HIV, homicide, diabetes, accidents, cancer, and heart disease — watch this one — combined,” he said.
“Three thousand shootings in Chicago a year, 700 murders, you’ve got to put that with heart disease, you’ve got to put that with HIV, you’ve got to put that with diabetes, you’ve got to put that with just accidents, and put that with cancer, and it doesn’t add up to specifically abortions. If you think about that number, 1,000 black babies are aborted each day” he added.
“I’ve sent this to people, and there are some people that say, ‘wow, that touches me.’ Some people say, ‘I feel that,’” West continued, adding that “an overwhelming amount of people” thank him for bringing the figures to their attention.
“Thank you for sending? Why would you thank anyone for sending that?” West countered.
West has spoken out against abortion telling an audience in July that his mother saved his life by choosing not to abort him as a baby.
“I cried at the thought of aborting my first born and everyone was so concerned about me… I’m concerned for the world that feels you shouldn’t cry about this subject,” the star later tweeted.