In a since-deleted post, Yi also shared text messages with his father, Ray West, discussing the “White Lives Matter” T-shirt. “I thought this was very funny,” Ray Yee wrote of the shirt. This prompted the artist to ask his father, ‘What did you like about it,’ to which Ray replied, ‘That the black man was proclaiming the self-evident.’
For context, Yi’s father was a former member of the Black Panthers, a famous black power political organization founded in the 1960s.
.
[ad_2]
