School of the Art Institute of Chicago Strips Kanye West of his Honorary Degree

School of the Art Institute of Chicago Strips Kanye West of his Honorary Degree

For the first time in its 80-year history, the prestigious School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) has rescinded the highly-valued, prestigious honorary doctorate it awarded to Kanye West in 2015.

In an email sent to members of the SAIC community today, the school’s president Elissa Tenny cited Ye’s recent “disturbing behaviors” and “dangerous statements” as the reasons behind the decision. 

“His anti-Black, antisemitic, and incendiary statements, particularly those directed at Black and Jewish communities, are disgusting and condemnable,” Tenny wrote. “His words and actions have been painful for our entire community and, particularly, for those of us who feel that our identities and life experiences are under attack.”

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Kanye West Pulls Out of Coachella Reports Variety | Change.org Petition inches to 50,000

Kanye West Pulls Out of Coachella Reports Variety | Change.org Petition inches to 50,000

AOC noted last week in what must be ‘10 Great Reasons for Kanye West Not to Play Coachella’, that the divine rapper, who gets his instructions from God in the shower, was defying the owners of the Coachella Festival, who dropped Travis Scott from the schedule after the Astroworld tragedy.

Variety wrote that Kanye had nothing prepared for Coachella, North America’s largest music festival. Kanye is very aggrieved over what he calls the #MeToo mentality.

As a result he has welcomed Marilyn Manson, who is accused of serious sexual assault and proudly claimed that he had a rape room according to Rolling Stone, into his divine inner circle of holy men. Rolling Stone interviewed 55 people in their investigation Marilyn Manson: The Monster in Plain Sight.

Kanye wasn’t having it, choosing to invite Manson into his divine sanctuary, seeing Manson as a victim and all his accusers as the Devil’s women.

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Remove Kanye from Coachella Petition Just Shy of 50,000 | Kanye on Ellen Blows My Mind

As the Remove Kanye from Coachella Petition cross 49,000 on the way to 50,000 signatures on March 29, Kanye’s honoring of Vladimir Putin’s throwing his opponent to the mat is chilling. Note though, that in Ye’s tweet, he is comparing himself to Putin’s style.

Two months before the election on Sept. 16, 2020, as he sought to be president of America, Kanye — like his good friend Donald Trump — felt totally comfortable celebrating Putin’s style of getting his point across. I don’t mean to be the armchair psychologist with no degree, but I note as an educated woman that Kanye steps into the Putin image metaphorically, writing “Rule Number one: Listen to Ye.”

Now Kanye West will tell you that he wouldn’t hurt a fly, but if you are seriously practicing ubuntu in the universe, you don’t 1) identify with Putin — although Kanye’s right-wing evangelicals loved Putin as the world’s top backer of Christianity as God ordered it; 2) write “Rule Number One” which is more authoritarian talk and 3) and order us to “Listen to Ye.” Kanye’s hubris is just staggering.

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MacKenzie Scott Donates $275 Million to Planned Parenthood. She's NOT a White Supremacist

I guess MacKenzie Scott’s [formerly Mrs. Jeff Bezos] $275 million gift to Planned Parenthood announced Wednesday, March 23 warrants another call to God from Kanye’s shower. This is where Ye gets his marching orders that terrorize so many of us.

To be called a white supremacist by Kanye West, because I support Planned Parenthood, is worse than being hunted by one of Kanye’s ‘kind’, landing me in police protection for a year as this dude was seriously stalking me with a promise to kill me.

Imagine getting up every morning to a bloody, decapitated animal in a box on your front doorstep. Imagine walking out to your car at night after shopping at the local mall. There’s a noose on your door handle — matching the box of rope left on your doorstep that morning with the note “This is the rope I will hang you with, B#tch.”

That nightmare was in the past, and It’s 2022. Kanye West was running for president of the United States in 2020 — when he expressed his view about those of us who do the devil’s work. Uber religious men have a habit of calling women like me Devils.

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No Kanye at Coachella! Petition Passes 35,000 | Kanye Gave 'No Touch' Orders on Skete

Hey, GAP. You can chill now! Kanye West Gave ‘No Touch’ Orders on Skete According to Wack 100

Here you go GAP Execs. Your investors are searching for info on Kanye’s state of mind, so you guys better be up on the latest Google News that Kanye wants Skete for himself.

Wack says that Kanye doesn’t want his peeps messing with Skete — “presumably because he wants to fight his own battle.” It does sound like Kanye has ordered nobody to take Skete out, mess him up, accuse Pete of shooting up one of the kids with drugs, carve up Kim Kardashian’s name with a knife on his chest . . . nothin’ . . . you know, the sorta thing really hip men do when they have scores to settle.

When asked by No Jumper host Adam22 what he’d do if he ran into the SNL comedian, Wack replied, “Skete can’t be around me. He gotta roll it up. Kanye gave specific instructions for nobody to touch Skete. He told us ‘do not touch Skete, don’t put our hands on Skete, don’t say nothing disrespectful to Skete.'”

Skete belongs to Kanye, GAP. If you can talk some sense into Ye, we might be able to save Pete.

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Kanye West Can Save Face at Coachella and Bow Out By Blaming Billie Eilish for No Apology

Update: The petition has crossed 30,000 at noon today and should be 35,000 Wed. am 3/23. This is the best day so far, and it’s because of online media coverage. We’re still plodding along in a turtle and the hare story. Multiple well-written, well-reasoned articles were written today. See lots of new outbound links below.

We have watched it very closely and this is an American signing audience [very few through the night] and AOC estimates 70% female of every skin color, BUT today looks like more guys — like 65/35%. It could move to 60/40% — as it’s more guys’ names we’re noticing. Yes, Kanye, I can tell.

Why We Are Signing This Petition to Have Kanye Not Perform at Coachella

People who are signing this petition don’t trust Kanye West not to hurt somebody or start a riot at Coachella. What we have witnessed from him in the last 90 days is totally frightening. I am so concerned that for weeks I got up and the first thing I checked at 6am was whether Ye had harmed his now ex-wife.

Kanye has taken me back to all of my 2008-2014 work in Sudan, to stop the brutal flogging of women in the name of Allah.

For a few years, those videos of Sudanese women being brutally flogged were smuggled out to me, as the government enforcers always took them down on Facebook due to violent content standards. The women knew they could count on me to keep the videos alive, working with a male editor at Bloomberg who then got the New York Times to write the articles also.

Today, we’re all supposed to sit here like morons while Kanye gets up on stage at Coachella, with a high probability of going on some crazy rant against women, against his ex-wife Kim Kardashian, against Planned Parenthood and Pete Davidson.

We say NO! I’m not cancelling you, Ye. I am worried that you might start a total riot. Or harm yourself. And you’ve got an easy out, Kanye. Blame Billie Eilish who didn’t apologize to Travis Scott for caring about fans at her concert.

You told the world that if Billie didn’t apologize, you weren’t coming to Coachella. Billie was, of course, as gracious as she could be about your accusations. Keep your word, Kanye.

You cannot be trusted ever to keep your mouth shut, because nobody tells Kanye West what to do.

Tonight March 22, the Kanye Petition Gets Significantly More Media Attention

Petition to remove Kanye West as Coachella headliner receives nearly 30,000 signatures FOX News

The Grammys Canceling Kanye’s Performance Is Just Glorified Self-Preservation: The Recording Academy couldn’t afford to risk a Kanye performance. MIC

Petition Calling for Kanye’s Removal From Coachella Passes 30,000 Signatures Complex

Petition to Remove Kanye West from Coachella Lineup Gets 26,000 Signatures Billboard

Petition to remove Kanye West from Coachella lineup gains traction The Independent London

Petition to drop Kanye West as Coachella headliner reaches 25,000 Signatures Page Six

Kanye West vs the world: when abusive behaviour is called out The Age [Australia]

Kim Kardashian doesn’t deserve this CNN

Should GAP continue to bet on Ye? The Grio

Kanye West’s Stormy Relationship With the Grammys Erupts Again New York Times

Kanye Faces Grammy Ban, Coachella Petition Over Online Behavior Newsweek

Petition to have Kanye West axed from Coachella line-up passes 26,000 signatures Newshub NZ

What To Do About Kanye West

What Should We Do About Kanye West? Maybe Nothing by Ineye Komonibo Refinery 29

AOC has read quite a lot of materials about the situation around Kanye West, and the events that prompted the creation of this petition to keep West from appearing at Coachella.

This think piece by Ineye Komonibo at Refinery 29 is excellent.

GLC Defends Kanye West, Criticizes ‘Disheartening’ Media Attention: ‘We Should Lift Him Up’ Complex

Ye was temporarily banned from Instagram for violating hate speech policy. Experts warn that abuse isn’t only physical Today.com

Kanye West Barred From Performing at Grammys Due to ‘Concerning Online Behavior,’ Rep Says Variety

KANYE WEST’S INSTAGRAM BAN IS AN ‘UNWANTED DISTRACTION’ FOR GAP Ad Age

Remove Kanye from Coachella! Petition Closes in on 25,000 with Tiny Media Coverage

On February 10, 2022, Kanye West said he would bow out of headlining Coachella unless Billie Eilish — also headlining Coachella 2022 — apologized to his friend Travis Scott for something she didn’t do. The headlines were clear.

Eilish offered her inhaler to a fan in distress during her Atlanta show. “Literally never said a thing about Travis [Scott],” Eilish wrote back, “Was just helping a fan”

It’s a fact. Billie said nothing about Travis Scott; and it was not the first time the star had stopped a concert to attend to a fan. Surely Kanye West doesn’t believe that we should all change our fan engagement to be more like Travis Scott — so we don’t accidentally make his friend look bad. Billie Eilish is known for being a mother hen with her audience. It’s called ‘ubuntu’ in the words of the great Nelson Mandela, meaning we are all connected.

Billie refused to apologize and was super gracious about not making a big deal of yet another example of Kanye West riding shotgun over women’s behavior. When Kanye West tells a woman to jump — she’s supposed to answer “How high you want me jumpin’, Ye?”

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