Superstar athletes are calling foul on Kanye West.
Aaron Donald of the NFL’s Los Angeles Rams and Jaylen Brown of the NBA’s Boston Celtics left the rapper’s Donda Sports advertising and marketing company Tuesday following repeated anti-Semitic remarks by West.
“The recent comments and displays of hate and antisemitism are the exact opposite of how we choose to live our lives and raise our children,” Donald stated in a joint assertion together with his spouse, Erica.
“We find them to be irresponsible and go against everything we believe in as a family.”
Brown apologized after lately telling the Boston Globe he would stay with the company although he doesn’t condone West’s conduct, saying in a tweet Tuesday that he’s now leaving Donda Sports.
“After sharing in conversations, I now recognize that there are times when my voice and my position can’t coexist in spaces that don’t correspond with my stance or my values,” Brown wrote.
Their departures got here hours after Adidas lower ties with West, who had a preferred “Yeezy” collaboration of footwear and clothes with the attire firm. West is now not a billionaire after dropping the Adidas partnership, with Forbes now estimating his web value to be $400 million.
Instagram restricted West’s account and Twitter locked his web page this month following posts that have been deemed anti-Semitic, together with a tweet during which West threatened to go “death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE.”
West additionally claimed on the present “Drink Champs” that George Floyd died from the drug fentanyl, and made controversial remarks whereas discussing his ex Kim Kardashian’s relationship with comic Pete Davidson.
“On TMZ, I just saw yesterday, they said, ‘Pete Davidson and Kim have sex by the fireplace to honor their grandmother.’ It’s Jewish Zionists that’s about that life, that’s telling this Christian woman that has four Black children to put that out as a message in the media,” West stated on the Revolt TV present.
The expertise company CAA lately dropped West as a consumer, whereas the clothes retailer Gap stated Tuesday that it was eradicating West’s former “Yeezy” collaboration from its shops.
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Source: www.bostonherald.com