West declaring onstage that famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who has been called “the Moses of her people,” “never actually freed the slaves.”“She just had the slaves go work for other white people,” West said. “We’re young, black women and there weren’t a lot of us in the room,” Fulton, 30, told The Washington Post. AD“You, Mr. West are a jerk and not worthy of uttering Tubman’s name,” Larson, the Tubman scholar, tweeted. “Kanye West is in desperate need of a crash course in American History. AD“This country has a real problem with knowing African American history,” she continued.

Source: Washington Post July 20, 2020 11:01 UTC