American-Senegalese musician, Akon has defended his contemporary, Kanye West‘s comment about the German dictator, Adolf Hitler being a good man.
A couple of days ago, the controversial musician, Kanye West stated that Adolf Hitler was a ‘good man’. This is coming barely two months after he made a comment about anti-Semitism.
West’s recent comment has seen him suspended once again on the social media platform, Twitter.
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In a recent interview with Sky Sports, Akon addressed the controversial musician and the statement that has since raised eyebrows.
The American recording musician and businessman declared his love for his colleague. He went on to mention that Kanye West‘s statement was harmless and does not necessarily depict the nature of his character.
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“I’m a backer of the right to believe what you want to believe” says Akon, speaking on Kanye West’s anti-Semitic comments – adding that if he spoke with Kanye he’d “give him my point of view on why I disagree” because ‘communication is key‘.
“Because I think sometimes when someone is offended they just lash out in defense or lash out to make that person feel that same offense that they felt,” he continued.
“I think when you take negative and you applied the response negatively back, you only get negative back.”
Akon concluded: “So I think it’s really a matter of both understanding what it is. Don’t take things too personally until you really understand the situation.”
Watch the interview below.
https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1598622798196473857?s=20&t=4N0Z8k9wsVYl6gNVjVw-gA
