BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): Then he tweeted out about freedom, about slavery. He said, you know, came out and says slavery was a choice and then he went ahead and clarified on Twitter because it caused outrage, obviously, with that statement. He said to think about 400 years ago and be in that mindset today is a choice. Get out of that mindset and think about now. So that was a lot of the controversy. 

Previously:

On TMZ Live, Kanye West and Candace Owens discuss free thought and call slavery “a choice”

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