‘Candidate’ Kanye rails on abortion & Tubman
Kanye West, who claims to be running for president, gave an emotional speech about abortion while bashing Harriet Tubman and boasting about his IQ during a bizarre campaign rally in South Carolina on Sunday.
The Chicago rapper, who wore a bulletproof vest and had the numbers “2020” shaved onto his head, revealed to the crowd that he and wife Kim Kardashian West had considered terminating their first pregnancy — but didn’t after he had a “vision from God.”
He then began to cry hysterically as he said, “My mom saved my life. My dad wanted to abort me.”
“I almost killed my daughter,” West, 43, sobbed, referring to the couple’s eldest, North West. “No more Plan B, Plan A.”
Speaking to a crowd of a couple of hundred ticket holders at the Exquis Event Center in North Charleston, West later said that he believes abortion should be legal, but that financial incentives would discourage the practice.
“Everybody that has a baby gets a million dollars,” he said as an example.
His rambling speech also included a dig at an abolitionist hero of the Underground Railroad.
“Harriet Tubman never actually freed the slaves. She just had the slaves go work for other white people,” West told the crowd.
The billionaire sneaker mogul also claimed to have a 132 IQ and that “I went to the hospital because my brain was too big for my skull.”
The rally was West’s first campaign event since he announced his presidential bid in a July 4 tweet. He said he was starting his own political party, “the Birthday Party.”
West appears on the presidential ballot in Oklahoma, but it’s unclear whether he would make the ballot in other states.