Kanye, tell us how you really feel
You’ve probably already seen this… but here’s another link to a post that has the video available for viewing.
I’m not going to agree/disagree with Kanye’s eloquent observations, but I think he deserves a pat on the back for saying what he wanted to say in front of millions of people.
I would have given anything to see the faces of the people producing this telethon while all this was going on… heh.
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September 22nd, 2005 at 9:29 pm
Personally, I think Kanye deserves a kick in the face for what he said because he felt the need to air HIS personal feelings on a telethon that was supposed to be about helping the people who needed help. And all of a sudden, he made it about himself and I think thats pretty disgusting when he has so much money he could buy some TV time and not take away any attention from people who need help. And I know the race card is being played in this situation, and it might even be true in individual cases, but as a whole, its not. Its a socio-economic card. Does no one remember Hurricane Andrew? Most of those people were white, and if you can recall, Bush Sr was delayed in sending aid as well. Where was the race card then? Nowhere in sight because thats not how we roll in most of America, its a socio-economic thing. Playing the race card is a dangerous thing in the Deep South because we dont need a greater racial divide, and if he was truly thinking about those people who were devastated, he would have kept to the script and aired his feellings on another media at another time.
September 23rd, 2005 at 11:09 am
Good point, Ashley. I really didn’t think about it that way. He accepted the position with the understanding that he was going to be raising money for the victims… not to use the airtime to voice his own personal opinion.
September 23rd, 2005 at 4:25 pm
I’m with Chris Rock. George Bush doesn’t care about midgets.
September 24th, 2005 at 3:34 pm
I agree with Ashley completely, what Kanye did, is the same as some high school kid wearing a T-shirt saying *uck to school. He thinks he’s being a revolutionary and “fighting the power”, but he isn’t. He’s just being loud and trying to attract attention. George Bush doesn’t care about black people.. ok but who does ? What are you doing personally to help black people ? How much of your own money did you send to the hurricane victims ? What do you recommend we do ? How do we fix the problems of the black people ?
Don’t have an answer ? Well, I guess you don’t give a shit about black people too Mr. West.
F you, and all your cohorts who continue to use the race card and perpetuate the myths and stereotypes of other races, but refuse to look at the root cause of the problems or work on solutions. You can’t solve problems by buying Bentleys, Bling, and Escalades. Stick to rap, thats what you’re good at.
September 25th, 2005 at 11:51 pm
hey, im posting on this a bit late b/c we kinda had our own problem on our hands by the name of rita. yeah i dont think kanye west went about that in a classy way. human suffering is just that. i live right down the street where 20, 000 people were being sheltered in the astrodome and reliant arena. yes, most of them were black but there was a significant amount of white people. it’s sht to pull the race card, it makes me kinda angry, dunno if im goin to make sense or make full my point, i have so much crap in my head right now…because before thurs afternoon there was a category 5 hurricane headed right towards houston, esp my area in the southwest. cell phones were jammed, people were flipping out, there was no gas, no bread, no water, no canned foods (i could go on and on) anywhere. as i packed up my most precious belongings from my apartment my mind was racing, goin a million different places, should we try to evacuate or should we stay? if we leave, what are we goin to come back to? wht the hell do i bring with me? and am i ever goin to see this place again?if the water rises do we go to the second floor? but then the wind, and our windows are so big, are they going to hold? it was chaos and ive never felt so scared of somethin in my life, esp when we boarded up and taped our windows etc, we were actually trying to come up with survival tactics. we decided to stay and even if we tried leavin thurs morning, we would’ve been stuck in traffic for 24 hrs getting to austin to my brother. we prefered to be stuck in our house rather than in our car when the storm was to hit. my cousin left for san antonio wed evening at 8pm with his 3mth old, 5yr old and wife and did not reach untilo 7pm the next day. we couldn’t leave b/c my dad’s flight from toronto was coming at 8pm that day and there was no way he was goin to leave us down there alone and we weren’t goin to leave without him, people in toronto at ticketing counter, at immigration kept asking, houston? are u crazy? in the grocery store there was a false sense of calm, super tense. you’d look outside the weather, the sky seemed normal, sometimes you felt angry, sometimes sad to the point of crying. i called every single friend i knew that didnt have family here to see if they needed some place to stay on higher ground or if they had someone in another city. somehow God decided to spare us, some people say it’s b/c houston is one of the most giving and most charitable communities in the us, i say it’s b/c my grandparents in baltimore were working overtime in the prayer department, others might say it’s all scientific, but none of us down here in h-town can deny, it’s a freakin miracle! and i dont know if kanye and well a whole lot of other people who like to criticize have ever ventured down here to see the actual chaos, or if they’ve felt that physical, mental, and emotional stress that we’re only starting to recover from…they have no room to criticize, joke about it. every person i meet has to say thank God we were spared whether they believe in God or not! and politics is the last thing on anyone’s mind right now! like i said i dunno if i made my point! as for prepared-ness in htown, we’re the 4th largest city, of course we’re goin to have a more extensive plan, and our local and state govt has learned from past experiences 4 yrs ago with tropical storm allison, and in 83 the cat 3 hurricane alicia, and of course katrina. we have an awesome mayor who kept calm and stayed focused all the way through. our city is so unbelievably diverse, i mean again, it’s the 4th largest city, 5.2 million people…whoever says houston is mostly white people (which ive heard this from people just recently) has never been down here. i wouldn’t consider myself bush’s biggest fan but pullin the race card is too fickle of a thing to pull at this time. criticism, scandals etc etc at this time only get in the way of the actual relief effort! so for all those ready to criticize without a solution, shut the f up and sit down, or stand up and bring your a down hurr to the dirty south and be a part of the solution.
(sorry paul that was such a long post)