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Chicago Arts School Rescinds Kanye West’s Degree
Kanye West’s honorary doctorate from the Faculty of the Artwork Institute of Chicago has been rescinded, and the school’s president condemned the artist’s latest antisemitic and racist statements. “Ye’s steps do not align with SAIC’s mission and values, and we have rescinded his honorary degree,” President Elissa Tenny stated in a statement to BuzzFeed News on Thursday. Tenny explained the the latest comments from the rapper, who recently adjusted his identify to Ye, as “anti-Black, antisemitic, racist, and unsafe, significantly those directed at Black and Jewish communities.” Ye received his honorary degree in 2015 for his creative achievements at the time. But just after Ye’s sequence of antisemitic tweets, racist…