Kanye West Busted For Tweeting Fake Harriet Tubman Quote

G.O.O.D. Music’s Kanye West might want to do a little fact-checking before letting his Twitter fingers go crazy. The Internet has busted Yeezy for not doing his homework and putting a fake Harriet Tubman quote to his 28.2 million followers.

According to reports, Kanye put up a quote Tuesday (May 2) from Tubman claiming she could have saved more slaves if they knew what they were.

Tubman actually never said that quote, according to fact-checking website Snopes. The same quote went viral in 2016 after it was announced that Tubman would replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. Feminist writer Robin Morgan wrote an essay in 2008 that discussed post-feminism and cited Tubman as the quote’s originator. (Newsweek)

In 2016, Rice University historian Dr. W. Caleb McDaniel explained the danger of pushing the bogus Tubman quote as real.

“Modern historians know the truth: enslaved people resisted their condition in countless ways, large and small. If they were not able to attain freedom, it was not because they didn’t want it or because (as the fake Tubman quote would have it) they ‘did not know they were slaves.’ … It was because powerful forces were arrayed against them. The idea of ‘tacit consent’ distracted attention from that fact.” (Historians Against Slavery)

Yesterday, Kanye made headlines with a slew of slavery-inspired tweets.

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the universe has a plan. I knew that TMZ would be awesome.

— ye (@kanyewest) May 1, 2018

we are programmed to always talk and fight race issues. We need to update our conversation.

— ye (@kanyewest) May 1, 2018

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in school we need to learn how magic Johnson built his business not always about the past. Matter fact I've never even heard of a high school class that presents future ideas

— ye (@kanyewest) May 1, 2018