West noted that "black faces in high places" were not able to create needed change because they succumbed to the "capitalist economy" and "militarized nation-state." "The Black Lives Matter movement emerged under a black president, black attorney general, and black homeland security and they couldn't deliver," West said about the Obama administration during a CNN interview Friday night. "The Black Lives Matter movement emerged under a black president, black attorney general, and black homeland security and they couldn't deliver." "Its capitalist economy could not generate and deliver, in such a way that people could live lives of decency," he added. "The nation-state, its criminal justice system, its legal system could not generate protection of rights and liberties."

Source: Fox News May 30, 2020 04:52 UTC