Marc Lamont Hill: ‘What Kanye Said Was Just Inexcusable, Ridiculous’

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HILL: "Well, let me start with Van first. That's an amazing response. It was genuine. It was smart. It was thoughtful. It was concise. And it was humane. I mean he could have just beat Kanye down, but he didn't. I think Kanye was able to hear him in a way that -- that he wouldn't have otherwise. And I think he kind of modeled how we can have civil discourse in society. What Kanye said was just inexcusable, ridiculous, and obviously inaccurate. It's disrespectful to our ancestors. It's disrespectful to everyone who resisted every single day. Slaves resisted every day, not just people who jumped off ships, not just people who killed their masters, not just people who ran away, but people who had endured this peculiar institution for centuries. I mean this was something that Kanye -- what Kanye said was something that was just completely wild and inexcusable, but part of a pattern that we're starting to see."