Kanye West paid tribute to his wife, Kim Kardashian, during a powerful speech about racism.
As he accepted his Visionary Award at the BET Honors, the rapper spoke about the stigma surrounding interracial relationships that he encountered when growing up.
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"At the barbershop... I used to hear people always talking about, 'Man you know when an entertainer get on, of course, you know he gon' go and get a white girl and blah blah blah and a white girl gon' get a rich black dude."'
Appearing to reference his own song Gold Digger, he then added about his lady: "But I wanna say that my wife has dated broke black dudes. It got nothing to do with the money."
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Kim herself addressed racism in an essay on her official website last October after she had "read and personally experience[d] some incidents that have sickened me and made me take notice."
She wrote: "I feel a responsibility as a mother, a public figure, a human being, to do what I can to make sure that not only my child, but all children, don't have to grow up in a world where they are judged by the color of their skin, or their gender, or their sexual orientation."
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