Kanye West - A Racist Embarrassment
Category: Hurricane Katrina...
Posted Friday, September 02, 2005 at 10:16 PM [GMT-6]

We couldn't believe our eyes and ears tonight when we heard a semi-coherent Kanye West rant on about how the media was showing African-Americans in New Orleans in the worst possible light, that the army was now being sent in with permission to "shoot us" and, last but certainly not least -- and this is a direct quote -- "George Bush doesn't care about black people."

I thought Mike Myers, who was standing next to West, presumably to share a spot for an appeal for donations during NBC's "A Concert for Hurricane Relief", was going to bolt for the exit to avoid being associated with this idiot. NBC cut away immediately after the Bush slam (whatever happened to the x-second delay...or did NBC just chalk that one up to "freedom of speech"?).

I gotta tell you, if you're going to go on national TV and make an appeal for assistance for "your people," it's probably not a winning strategy to immediately alienate over half of the potential donating population. But I guess West's racist hatred won out over his caring for "his people."

Here's a link to the video clip, courtesy of r3mix.com, in case you want to confirm this for yourself. (Update: Credit where credit's due: the video comes from Tomorrow's Fool.)

And, yeah...I'm closing the comments on this post, too. There's no room for discussion about this one, as far as I'm concerned.

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