As rapper Kanye West continues to face backlash and lose lucrative sponsorships as well as partnerships for his hateful antisemitic comments, it looks like a Michigan Wolverines star running back is causing some controversy with some antisemitic messaging of his own.
On Thursday, Michigan running back Donovan Edwards shared a Tweet via Retweet that featured Kanye West and included hateful and antisemitic messaging.
“Jewish people will literally tell you that they want you to kill your own and humiliate your women simply because they have children to feed,” the Tweet read while showing a recent Kanye West interview and Charlamagne tha God’s interview with a music executive.
While Edwards has since taken the retweet down, Michigan football reporter Ace Anbender of Meet at Midfield preserved it with a screenshot and shared it on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/AceAnbender/status/1585426227204177921
Anbender, who has covered the Michigan Wolverines for over a decade, believes that Michigan should suspend Edwards for one game due to his controversial comments.
“I don’t think there should be a debate over whether retweeting hate speech merits a one-game suspension from [something] as relatively trivial as football but I’ve been on the internet before,” Anbender said in a follow-up Tweet. “I have zero faith in the program to handle this correctly or even to acknowledge it ever happened at all outside of their facility, which is still named after Bo Schembechler.”
Michigan takes on the Michigan State Spartans this weekend. The Wolverines have made no comment on Edwards’ Tweet.
