Kanye West News 2015: Delivers BET Honors Speech with Powerful Message on Racism

Kanye West eloquently delivered a speech with a powerful message on racism when he accepted the Visionary Award at the 2015 Black Entertainment Television, or BET, Honors, which aired on Monday.

The 37-year-old rapper made the audience laugh with the jokes he cracked in between his speech where he talked about race and wealth issues and his marriage to Kim Kardashian.

"At the barber shop and everything, I used to hear like people always talking about, 'Man, you know when an entertainer get on, of course you know he gonna go and get a white girl... and the white girl gonna go get a rich black dude,'" West said, according to People.

"But I wanna say that my wife has dated broke black dudes. So ain't got nothing to do with the money," he added.

But West turned serious while defending his biracial relationship with the reality TV star, recalling a story she told him about her father, lawyer Robert Kardashian.

Mr. Kardashian was one of the lawyers who defended O.J. Simpson and who discovered that his Bentley had been vandalized with the slur "N---- lover." Simpson was acquitted of the 1994 murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman after a lengthy and internationally publicized criminal trial in 1995.

"She had never saw her father curse, get mad; he was the most laid-back human being. And he went so crazy and tried to chase the people down. And she stood there crying and said, 'Dad, why are you going so crazy?'" West said, according to People.

"And he said to her, 'One day, you may have a black child. A beautiful, beautiful, beautiful black child. And it's going to be hard. You're going to see how hard it is.'," he added.

Kanye gave the speech two years after his wife gave birth to their daughter, North West, saying: "So true enough, we deal with racism because there are different races."

"Or the micro of it is that we focus on the different races as opposed to the macro, which is the human race," he added.

Kanye went on to discuss how important it is to focus on humanity as a group and for black people to use their influence for the betterment of all.

Using oil as a metaphor for wealth, he continued, "Our oil is our expression, is our influence. Don't never let them take that away. And when we have the chance to express it and to influence, don't only just do it for us, do it for the human race."