According to the New York Times, Kanye West was coached on his Today Show reply to President Bush saying West calling him out as a racist was the worst moment of his Presidency.
After sneering at the Yeasayer bloke comment that West was too subservient in his reply to the President, I find myself agreeing with Anand to a degree.
Let’s get it straight. Whether the Katrina was racial or financial indifference is irrelevant. It still ended the same way on the same Presidents watch and whether it was indifference or stupidity on the President’s behalf, the fact remains that the perceived underclass in our society were treated cavalierly and died as a result in a manner that simply wouldn’t have happened to the rich or even middle class.
It’s like saying you didn’t lynch that guy because he was black but because you didn’t like his face.
I might add that I agree with Alyson that Kanye dissing him, as opposed to, say, committing American troops to Iraq, was the low point of his Presidency is mind boggling. Whether or not you agree with committing troops, doing so is a failure of diplomacy of monumental proportions. It is Bush’s failure. And inestimably lower point that Kanye West calling him a racist.
West, coached at cock sucking (by the Rubinstein Agency) the fatuous and self-important Matt Lauer, was an embarrassment. he shoulda told Matt to shut the fuck up, read a statement, and walked off.