Kanye West sparked outrage after sporting a shirt with the phrase “White Lives Matter” throughout his YZY SZN 9 vogue present at Paris Style Week on Monday.

The phrase is categorized by the Anti-Defamation League as a hate slogan. Per the Southern Poverty Legislation Heart, White Lives Matter is a neo-Nazi group that was created as “a racist response to the civil rights motion Black Lives Matter.”

Wanda Cooper-Jones, the mom of the late Ahmaud Arbery, known as out the rapper and dressmaker for serving to to “legitimize extremist conduct” with the viral incident.

In February 2020, Arbery was murdered in a hate crime whereas jogging by the Satilla Shores neighborhood in Georgia after three white males chased him down and shot him.

In a press release to Rolling Stone, Cooper-Jones expressed her “excessive disappointment” in West’s conduct, including that the stunt made a mockery of the Black Lives Matter motion.

“Because of his show ‘White Lives Matter’ began trending within the U.S., which might direct assist and legitimize extremist conduct, [much] just like the conduct that took the lifetime of her son,” Cooper-Jones communicated by her lawyer Lee Merritt. “That’s the factor that Wanda and households like hers proceed to struggle in opposition to.”

The assertion continued: “This mockery of the Black Lives Matter motion and his now denunciation of the motion as some type of hoax flies immediately within the face [of what he’s said]. It’s complicated for her, it’s complicated for the households to obtain his assist privately, however publicly to set us all again.”

Amid the wave of backlash over the controversial shirt, West, who legally modified his title to Ye final 12 months, posted and deleted numerous messages on Tuesday morning to his Instagram addressing the criticism — together with one publish calling the BLM motion a “rip-off.”

“Everybody is aware of that Black Lives Matter was a rip-off. Now it’s over. You’re welcome,” he wrote.

He additional ignited the criticism by posing for a photograph subsequent to conservative commentator Candace Owens, who additionally wore the identical shirt in white.

A few of the fashions on the catwalk of Ye’s present additionally wore shirts with the identical message, The Guardian reported.

Ye beforehand had lent his assist to Arbery’s household by masking their authorized charges within the household’s quest for justice after the unarmed Black jogger was chased and killed by father and son Greg McMichael and Travis McMichael, and their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan.

In June 2020, Ye additionally donated $2 million to the households of Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.