Kanye West posts graphic Emmett Till lynching photo, goes on antisemitic rant against Ari Emanuel

'You tried to bankrupt adidas and me at the same time. You tried to destroy my life,' Kanye West posted on Instagram

PUBLISHED OCT 31, 2022

Ari Emanuel criticized West in a column in Financial Times stating that his mental health issues could not be used as an excuse for his bellicose antisemitic rants (Victor Boyko/Getty Images For Kenzo; Amy Sussman/Getty Images)

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Kanye West, who legally changed his name to Ye, apologized for having "questioned" the death of George Floyd and said that he now knew "how it feels to have a knee on [his] neck". The 45-year-old was slammed earlier when he suggested that Floyd's death was related to drugs rather than police brutality. Now, it seems like West is setting new standards every day when it comes to his despicable actions. On Sunday, October 30, the disgraced rapper posted the grisly lynching photo of Emmett Till on his Instagram account alongside a long, antisemitic screed against Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel.

“You tried to bankrupt adidas and me at the same time … You tried to destroy my life after all the money I’ve made for the ‘business’ people,” West wrote on his post, where he also used the word "business people" in place of Jewish people. “And now eeeeveryone knows how much power you ‘Business’ people actually have.” His post, per The Wrap, comes in the midst of an ongoing rift between him and Emanuel who wrote an opinion piece for the Financial Times, arguing the rapper's mental health challenges do not excuse his antisemitic remarks.

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“Millions of people affected by mental illness do not perpetuate hateful ideologies,” the Endeavor CEO, who is Jewish, wrote, urging companies to cut ties with the artist due to his hateful comments. “Others brush his comments off as just words, but hateful words far too easily become hateful actions.”

Ye, in response, posted a message to Emanuel saying “Ari Emanuel, I lost 2 billion dollars in one day and I’m still alive. This is love speech. I still love you. God still loves you. The money is not who I am. The people is who I am.” Kim Kardashian's ex-husband's non-accredited private school Donda Academy abruptly closed, which likely fuelled the post targeting Emanuel. “Ari Emanuel,” the post starts. “Can you find a place for the Donda Academy kids to go to school that’s properly zoned for a school? I got about 60 children that have no place to be as they look to transfer.”

He then continued, “This is what modern post social media #Blackmirror warfare looks like…the children are not even off limits,” before identifying “economic lynching,” “digital lynching” and “bankrupting my social credit score” as examples of the “warfare.” There is no explicit mention of Emmett Till in the post, though, only references to “lynching.” West then requested Emanuel’s brother, former Chicago mayor Rahm, to help him save the school which “bus[es] underprivileged kids in from all over.” “Rahm…You’re a very powerful ‘Business’ person,” he wrote. “Here I am…The once richest black man in the world asking the very person who is destroying me to at least help these Children…”