A producer behind LeBron James’ unscripted series The Shop: Uninterrupted says they have pulled a forthcoming episode featuring Kanye West after he used hate speech and stereotypes during filming.
Maverick Carter, whose production company with James, SpringHill Company, produces The Shop, told Andscape, “After talking to Kanye directly the day before we taped, I believed he was capable of a respectful discussion and he was ready to address all his recent comments. Unfortunately, he used The Shop to reiterate more hate speech and extremely dangerous stereotypes.”
The statement continued, “We have made the decision not to air this episode or any of Kanye’s remarks. While The Shop embraces thoughtful discourse and differing opinions, we have zero tolerance for hate speech of any kind and will never allow our channels to be used to promote hate. I take full responsibility for believing Kanye wanted a different conversation and apologize to our guests and crew. Hate speech should never have an audience.”
This is the one episode where LeBron did not make an appearance and has not commented on the issue.
The Shop controversy is just the latest incident of West using language widely deemed to be racist or hate speech.
West was recently temporarily banned from Twitter when he threatened to go “death con 3 on Jewish people.”
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“I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I’m going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE,” West tweeted recently. “The funny thing is I actually can’t be Anti Semitic because black people are actually Jew also You guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda.”
