Kanye West has reportedly killed birds with one stone by donating $2 million to the Black Lives Matter movement, and setting up a college savings fund to cover tuition for Floyd’s 6-year-old daughter, Gianna.
The $2 million donated by Kanye West is in relation to the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor and to several black-owned businesses in his Chicago hometown.
West, a father of four, also set up a 529 college savings fund to fully cover tuition for Floyd’s 6-year-old daughter, Gianna.
Recall Geroge Floyd died on May 25 after police officer Derek Chauvin pinned Floyd to the ground using his knee on Floyd’s neck during his arrest. Chauvin and three other officers involved in Floyd’s arrest and resulting death have since been fired, arrested and charged in a criminal case.
While the heat was on, Kanye’s wife, Kim Kardashian also spoke out against the injustice in an Instagram post.
“For years, with every horrific murder of an innocent Black man, woman, or child, I have always tried to find the right words to express my condolences and outrage, but the privilege I am afforded by the color of my skin has often left me feeling like this is not a fight that I can truly take on my own. Not today, not anymore,” she said in her post.
“Like so many of you, I am angry. I am more than angry. I am infuriated and I am disgusted,” the Skims mogul continued. “I am exhausted by the heartbreak I feel seeing mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers and children suffering because their loved one was murdered or locked away unjustly for being Black.”
Kim added that, “Even though I will never know the pain and suffering they have endured, or what it feels like to try to survive in a world plagued by systemic racism, I know I can use my own voice to help amplify those voices that have been muffled for too long.”
On Thursday, Kim Kardashian took an extra step by declaring her and her teams’ support of the movement and announced her businesses will be donating to Black Lives Matter, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, National Urban League and Color of Change.
Meanwhile a GoFundMe campaign devoted to Gianna’s “care and future” following the loss of her father has amassed more than $1.5 million in donations.
Arbery was shot and killed in Georgia in February after being chased by 3 men who allegedly believed he fit the description of a burglary suspect in the area.
Taylor — who was an emergency medical worker — was shot and killed by Louisville cops in her own home in a “no-knock warrant” case, in which cops allegedly busted in without warning.
