Kanye West Calls Emma González His ‘Hero’; She Responds by Calling This Man Hers

It looks like Kanye West is still on his dissociated, rambling run on Twitter, and in addition to dropping new music, he recently called Marjory Stoneman Douglas student Emma González, a survivor of the mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., his “hero.” Suggested Reading The Root 100 – 2020 Black History Month – 2022 Hip-Hop 50…

It looks like Kanye West is still on his dissociated, rambling run on Twitter, and in addition to dropping new music, he recently called Marjory Stoneman Douglas student Emma González, a survivor of the mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., his “hero.”

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https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/990397560878645248

He also bigged her up again minutes later, saying that he was inspired by her.

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/990402139762573313

However, González, perhaps in response to West, wrote less than two hours later that James Shaw Jr., the man who took the gun from the Tennessee Waffle House shooter earlier this week, and raised nearly $200,000 for the victims of that mass shooting, was her hero.

https://twitter.com/Emma4Change/status/990402250836234240

Can’t argue with either of them. More Emma, less Donald, OK, Ye?

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