<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=16Sm1w_0j9HE4Ea00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=16Sm1w_0j9HE4Ea00" width="1200" height="800" ><figcaption>Kanye West visits New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in the Atlanta area in 2019. (Sam Jones)</figcaption></figure><p>On a quiet October afternoon, Kanye West slunk into a choir rehearsal at Iglesia de Jesucristo, Monte de Santidad, a church in Northridge. Clutching a microphone tightly to his face, he softly sung the words to the Christ for the Nations’ song “When I Think About the Lord,” riffing on harmonies before breaking out in hallelujahs as the song reached its chorus.</p><nbtemplate data-id="AdPlaceholder" data-content="JTdCJTdE"></nbtemplate><p>His reserved demeanor, captured on video, as he bowed his head in the middle of a prayer circle, stood in stark contrast to his offensive remarks that have sucked up much of the attention in recent weeks. Since debuting his “White Lives Matter” shirt during Paris Fashion Week in early October, West has incensed a number of different communities. He’s victimized himself as a Black man being oppressed by clothing conglomerates while simultaneously claiming George Floyd died from fentanyl rather than former police Officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on his neck for nine minutes. (West later called the mother of Floyd’s daughter “greedy” for suing him.)</p><p>Beyond this, he’s repeatedly made antisemitic claims, while accusing Jewish people of conspiring to suppress and sedate him as part of a larger plot to “control” Black people across America.</p><nbtemplate data-id="AdPlaceholder" data-content="JTdCJTdE"></nbtemplate><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=1s7vae_0j9HE4Ea00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1s7vae_0j9HE4Ea00" width="840" height="560" ></figure><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=4O1XPF_0j9HE4Ea00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=4O1XPF_0j9HE4Ea00" width="1200" height="960" ></figure><nbtemplate data-id="AdPlaceholder" data-content="JTdCJTdE"></nbtemplate><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2Hi8Cv_0j9HE4Ea00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2Hi8Cv_0j9HE4Ea00" width="840" height="560" ></figure><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=1QXDtV_0j9HE4Ea00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1QXDtV_0j9HE4Ea00" width="1200" height="1062" ></figure><nbtemplate data-id="AdPlaceholder" data-content="JTdCJTdE"></nbtemplate><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=05Wwlq_0j9HE4Ea00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=05Wwlq_0j9HE4Ea00" width="1200" height="800" ></figure><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=00FRgk_0j9HE4Ea00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=00FRgk_0j9HE4Ea00" width="1200" height="900" ></figure><nbtemplate data-id="AdPlaceholder" data-content="JTdCJTdE"></nbtemplate><nbtemplate data-id="PublisherFooter" data-content="JTdCJTIyY29weXJpZ2h0JTIyJTNBJTIyQ29weXJpZ2h0JTIwJUMyJUE5JTIwMTg4MS0yMDIyLiUyMExvcyUyMEFuZ2VsZXMlMjBUaW1lcy4lMjBVc2VkJTIwd2l0aCUyMFBlcm1pc3Npb24uJTIyJTdE"></nbtemplate></div></body>

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On a quiet October afternoon, Kanye West slunk into a choir rehearsal at Iglesia de Jesucristo, Monte de Santidad, a church in Northridge. Clutching a microphone tightly to his face, he softly sung the words to the Christ for the Nations’ song “When I Think About the Lord,” riffing on harmonies before breaking out in hallelujahs as the song reached its chorus.