Instagram blocks Kanye West's account for 24 hours over racist slur

He has been chasing his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, and her new partner, Pete Davidson, on social networks for weeks, but now Kanye West has crossed a red line and Instagram and has decided to prevent the rapper from posting content on his account, making comments or send private messages for 24 hours.

The trigger for the decision was a racist comment that the 44-year-old singer made to American comedian Trevor Noah, according to

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This Wednesday, West, who has a not inconsiderable figure of more than 15 million followers on the social network, subtitled a screenshot of a Google search where Noah is defined as a "South African comedian" and did so by replacing part of the Kumbaya chorus lyrics by the racial epithet.

“All together now... 'K–n berry my lord k–n berry K–n berry my lord K–n berry Oooo' lord K–n berry,” he wrote.

The rapper's attack is not accidental and has come a day after Noah spoke on his television show about the treatment that West gives his ex-wife and Davidson.

“You may not feel sorry for Kim because she is rich and famous,” said the presenter, who added that what is happening with the singer and Kardashian “is scary to watch and highlights what so many women go through when they choose to leave.”

Noah went even further, comparing the couple's situation to the abuse he himself had witnessed in his family during his childhood and explaining that people then thought her mother was "overreacting" before her stepfather I will shoot him in the head.

She survived the assassination attempt.

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Although in principle the measure taken by the social network will only last 24 hours, a spokesman quoted by the US media has assured that if West continues to violate the company's policies on incitement to hatred, intimidation and harassment, additional measures will be taken.

West's ongoing attacks on Kardashian and Davidson on social media have lasted several weeks.

Just a few days ago, the reality TV superstar's ex-husband publicly accused her in a video of keeping their four children together—North, 8, Saint, 6, Chicago, 4, and Psalm, 2—away. of the.

Something that she herself has denied.

However, the also businesswoman has not been the only target of her attacks.

West has not stopped attacking her current partner, actor Pete Davidson, even accusing him of being a drug addict.

Davidson, far from standing still, responded a few days ago to the rapper's provocations by sending him a selfie with his ex-wife in bed.

Kardashian, who married West in 2014 and has managed to be declared officially single before finalizing the divorce process, requested to separate from the artist a little over a year ago and since then both have been immersed in an endless and difficult legal battle to reach an agreement.

And while she seems to have found some stability with Davidson, he has chained a relationship with another since the breakup, first with actress Julia Fox, who assured earlier this month that West had tried to replicate with her the relationship he had with Kardashian.

A couple of days after Fox's statements, her ex-boyfriend appeared in a selfie on Instagram alongside model Chaney Jones.