Kanye West's remark implying slavery was a "choice" has many fans and celebrities speaking out against the rapper, including Roots star LeVar Burton.  Burton, who played Kunta Kinte in the 1977 drama series, questioned West's mental state during an interview with sam Rubin on the KTLA Morning News.  "Where do you start with Kanye? I genuinely believe that this young man has brain chemistry issues and that he is in a hypomanic phase.  I'm not a psychiatrist, I'm not a psychologist but I've seen this behavior and I now it fairly intimately well," Burton said.  Kanye admitted to having a "breakdown" and is currently on medication.

          "I just think somebody in Kanye's camp if there is somebody in Kanye's camp needs to put their arms around him and have hit sit down for five minutes until his brain chemistry levels out because he's not helping himself right now," Burton continued.

          West gave his opinion on the centuries African-Americans spent shackled in servitude during an interview on TMZ live Tuesday, April 24th.  "You hear about slavery for 400 years.  For 400 years?!  That sounds like a choice," said West.  "You were there for 400 years and it was all of y'all?  It's like we're meant to be in prison.  I like the word 'prison' because slavery goes too direct to the idea of blacks  . . .  Prison is something that unites us as one race."

          "When Kanye West says slavery was a choice, I got an issue with that.  It's irresponsible.  It is uneducated.  It's just stupid.  and Kanye has gone on record and said he doesn't read books. But you don't, Kanye, need to put out misinformation like that," Burton said.

          "There are too many people who listen to you and take what you say as valuable and truth.  And somebody's got to wrap their arms around this yung man and just sit on him until he levels out.  Because this hypomanic thing  . . . He doesn't see that there is anything going on.  He just feels normal or a super version of himself.  It's a brain chemistry thing," Burton said.