If Kanye West hoped to promote a bunch of “White Lives Matter” shirts to right-wing followers, he’s acquired one other factor coming!
As we’ve been reporting, Ye dumped a complete bunch of these shirts among the many homeless inhabitants down on Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. That little stunt has induced its personal set of issues for these struggling to outlive down there. However there’s a purpose Ye didn’t promote them as an alternative: as a result of he can’t!
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Capital B reviews that two radio hosts — Ramses Ja and Quinton Ward, who helm the present Civic Cipher out of Phoenix, Arizona — are the house owners of the “White Lives Matter” trademark. Oh, and did we point out Ja and Ward are Black?!
Yep!!!
So with the intention to legally promote shirts with that slogan emblazoned on it, Ye (or his Paris Vogue Week ‘WLM’ stunt companion Candace Owens, or anybody attempting to push white supremacist messages) has to license the hosts’ trademark. And to date that hasn’t occurred.
The information outlet interviewed Ja about how he and his co-host took place proudly owning the business rights to such a stunning assertion. Ramses detailed how a listener of theirs truly purchased the trademark first, after which handed it off to the 2 public figures:
“So we’ve a listener who determined they wished to personal the best to create, produce, and promote shirts that say ‘White Lives Matter.’ This particular person didn’t wish to produce these shirts, however moderately it’s my understanding that they had been doing it to make sure that the best folks benefited from it. This particular person procured it however didn’t actually love proudly owning it, in order that they approached us to make sure that the best folks profit from it and that folks aren’t damage by it. They felt we had been in a way more public place to make use of it to the benefit of Black people.”
Wow!
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Not a nasty idea, actually. If some bigot goes to attempt to revenue off that terrible slogan in any case, why not make them pay hand-over-fist to have entry to it, ya know?! Ja defined:
“The place we land on it’s that any person will personal that trademark as a result of it has totally entered into our widespread vernacular. So somebody will personal the best to supply and promote clothes with the phrase. Nonetheless, I might moderately reside in a world the place the earnings from these gross sales return to assist offset the ache it causes moderately than reside in a world the place I’ve nothing to do with that.”
Ja additionally mentioned that whereas there are not any plans for them to make use of the trademark themselves, they’re open to creating somebody pay a s**t load of cash to license the phrase! That cash, the radio host mentioned, may very well be donated to progressive organizations like Black Lives Matter or the NAACP:
“Somebody might come to our lawyer or us and say, ‘Hey, you might have the unique proper to make and promote these garments in the US of America. I wish to purchase the trademark for thousands and thousands of {dollars}.’ If we had been to promote that trademark, for no matter sum of money, we might donate that cash to causes that we really feel would profit Black folks, just like the NAACP or Black Lives Matter organizations. As a result of, realistically, we can’t cease the shirts from being made proper now. We will write stop and desist to folks promoting these shirts proper now, however that could be a large monster that requires groups of legal professionals and hundreds of {dollars} that we would not have. In any other case, on the finish of a long-standing, occupying sort of place, we will perhaps donate the trademark to Black Lives Matter or any racial justice group with the assets to ship out stop and desist letters all day, each day.”
So might the Hurricane rapper provide you with the money to get occurring this? Perhaps. He did have that type of cash — again earlier than he was the type of man that wished to make these t-shirts. However he hasn’t reached out to date! The Civic Cipher co-host mentioned:
“No, not that I’m conscious of.”
Alas…
Nonetheless, it’s good to know these guys (and their listener who utilized for the trademark within the first place) had been shrewd sufficient to capitalize on one thing that’s in any other case so offensive. Sorry not sorry, Ye!
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