The actual footage of this is INCREDIBLE.

I have never seen anyone look more uncomfortable than Mike Myers does once Kanye drops the bomb. His face is an absolute picture.

Kanye looks ready to burst into tears at any moment, it's really moving.

I don't think what he said could possibly overshadow what's happened though, if anything it sums up what a hell of a lot of people think.

i think he hit on a touchy subject tho, whether true or not.
and to be fair, you dont see eminem crying on stage shouting "they never help out any white families on Extreme makeover home edition"

I saw this when I was flicking through news channels. It was being shown on Fox, and when it came back to the studio one guy said "gee, I wonder how much money these comments will have cost the donation fund" (or words to that effect), and had a little joke about it.

Then the black presenter spoke up and said that it was unlikely to have affected anything and that these are issues that needed to be addressed. Then they cut to an ad.

Twas excellent TV.

Shocking stuff. Good to see someone who ACTUALLY cares. It's easy to raise your profile when 'disasters' happen, like the post Live8 record sales arguments, fair play for speaking your mind! He's certainly got balls of steel.

haha Myer's face is a Picture of absolute terror.

Does anyone have an up-to-date link to the NY Times article? Would be interested in reading it. If not, anyone any idea as to what the article was saying?

Good on him for saying what everyone else has been thinking.

If this sort of incident happened in a richer and/or predominantly white area, I don't think it would have taken this long for a response from the Federal Government. NO was still waiting for an adequate response days after the destruction. Days. How long did it take for Bush to react to 9/11? WTC.......filled with rich, mostly white, mostly male bankers and executives.

I think Kanye has a good point and spoke out against something that many of us are thinking, but the timing was crap. Seriously.

not meaning to be pinnickity, but calling kanye west a "raper" is surely asking for legal trouble?

Read this little truth nugget in the metro today:

"In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war."

Bush: Wadda prick!
West west well within his right.

Aparently people, black and white I hasten to add, were directed into areas by the army and police and abandoned. If they tried to approach army or police they had guns pointed at them and were told to stay back. They went looking in ordinary working class areas for anything of use they could find. On approaching wealthier areas SWAT teams appeared from nowhere with snipers on the roofs of propertys. The property of the rich is more important than the lives of the poor, black and white, nothing changes.

Goo dfor him what I don't understand is why he seems to be standing alone saying this, why is noone else standing up and saying how ridiculous this imbalance is.

i think its crazy that people black or white are being shot at for taking food. what are they supposed to do, they see a supermarket - leave the change on the counter.

This link works and will play in Media Player. It's about 2mins long.

http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2005/09/nbc_video.html

haven't seen the footage yet, but i too have a new found respect for kanye. it's classic how, in the article, they try to defend themselves by saying 'the crew were "instructed to listen for a curse word"'. it's like, 'he's black - he's gonna f_cking swear!'

it sounds horrible, but i actually laughed after watching that video. but its because im so happy that somebody actually had the stones to get up in front of national TV and say what everyone was thinking. makes a change from all the PC, pro-government shite that theyre told they have to speak.

Damn straight, well done Mr West. *applaudes*

Excellent stuff - regardless of what you may think of Kayne West's music you have to respect him for that.

Chris Tuckers face is priceless.

here's to this tragedy ending Bush, and highlighting a few ugly truths about the worlds most hegemonic nation

He's a fucking idiot, and he talked the biggest load of bullshit, and it wasn't even delivered well, he was stuttering and shaking to fuck.

That makes me want to buy Kanye West records......it'd be nice if something changed for the better out of this tragedy, but I doubt it will. Notice how the news reports are already talking about fucking oil prices going up...

The most appalling shit can happen, but one thing will always remain constant- the amount of money yankee oil takes home each day....

Sure, Bush may lose popularity over this, but let's face it, america hasn't got the best history of efficient action in the face of adversity. They like to blow things up and create a fuss. So Bush'll be out bu, it's not like there are only twenty more evil, murdering, racist oil barons sons to replace him.....there are probably twenty thousand...we're doomed.

he wouldnt have an album comng out by any chance would he????

Mike Myers's face in that video is a picture. I wanted him to say "yeah baby yeah!" when West said "Bush hates black people" but alas he didn't.

Katrina had no idea she was tearing through the lives of black people and white people alike. She did it because she was a hurricane, and that's what hurricanes do.

Kanye West's not what is important here. I don't think you guys have any idea what has happened to NO. I don't think I do. The city is gone, my friends. It's a ghost town. Think about that. A whole fucking city gone. :-(

He doesnt care about black people he cares about the OIL dammit!

Kanye West was shaking and stuttering because he was genuinely raged at the way Bush handled this.

If ANYTHING bad happened in Texas, he wouldn't wait for a request for help from the State of Texas. He'd go. People are dying. He wouldn't wait for Texas to ask for help. Would he mind "cutting his vacation short" to go help Texas, or any of the mega-big, high profile States?

Did Bush wait for Iraq to ask the US to "help"?? Did the US wait for NYC on 09/11?? No, Bush gave a nationally televised statement in hours. Did they wait for more people in Asia to die after the Tsunami? His excuses for not doing anything are so transparent.

If he was murdered, or died suddenly, in the next 24 hours, I wouldn't shed a tear. I would probably be a little happy. Smiles all around.

"Re: Kanye West: "Bush doesn't care about black people"
Posted by since-last-summer on 5th Sep, 22:42 | Reply to this post
Carzy: great eloquence.
grockle: please do buy his records, they're quite splendid."

When the truth is self-evident there is no need for eloquence...

controversial...

Kanye West may have been prompted by the controversy discussed in the NYTimes article linked to above, where two pictures of survivors wading through the streets with bags of food were descrived rather differently:

(taken from the NYTimes article:)
"The first photo, taken by Dave Martin, an Associated Press photographer in New Orleans, shows a young black man wading through water that has risen to his chest. He is clutching a case of soda and pulling a floating bag. The caption provided by The A.P. says he has just been "looting a grocery store...
...The second photo, also from New Orleans, was taken by Chris Graythen for Getty Images and distributed by Agence France-Presse. It shows a white couple up to their chests in the same murky water. The woman is holding some bags of food. This caption says they are shown "after finding bread and soda from a local grocery store."

It is definitely stuff to make your blood boil. The whole area is f**ked off back into the third world and people are (even if only subliminally) filtering the desperate survivors with shitty stereotyping. Racism + severe shoot to kill policy.... entirely right and proper to make KW's point. It will be much more likely to damage him within an entertainment and radio industry dominated by Bush's mates than help him.

It's still going on. Radio4 were interviewing the people who had been let back in to get stuff and do repairs for a few hours. guess what?! in a city that is predominantly black all these people were white.

As for Carzy - on other sites that's called being a WUM.

Relating to someone's post further up, I just heard on the news that a hurricane striking New Orleans is one of three most likely disasters to happen in the US. The other 2 being an earthquake in California and a terrorist attack in New York. Spooky eh?

They built a city below sea level, right next to the sea, in an area of the country that is frequently hit by hurricanes.

This really should have been prevented, and George Bush does seem to be the one at fault.

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Kayne-West-Bush-Black-People.wmv

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1563470,00.html

To me West comes across as poorly advised and poorly prepared. He naively hi-jacked a platform granted to him for fund-raising and in doing so may have alienated some of those prepared to help. Did nobody coach him thorugh this? Nobody wanted his opinion/world view - you can download that for 79p a time.

Secondly he rants almost incoherently barely able to form a sentence. When making a point like that (however valid) you need to be clear and focused to have impact. Is it the press, the relief agencies, the war in Iraq, US society, the President or all the above he is complaining about. When his opportunity came, he was found wanting. Now Rev Jesse Jackson....there's a different story.

So, why exactly is Bush racist? What has he done to show that he is racist? I know he has appointed more blacks to top cabinet spots then any other president - but I'm sure that's part of his "cover".
So I guess this is what happened - the hurricane hits, and then Bush sends out the order to all parts of the federal government saying - "take your time, it's just black people". Is that how it went?
Does anyone have any idea how big the US government is? Do you think that that one man is controlling everything that is happening at all times?
Plus the comparisons to 9/11 make no sense. Firstly, the federal government did nothing to deal with 9/11 (related to the search and rescue and cleanup) - it was all local. So much for the quick response because they were "successful white bankers". Secondly, do you realize the size of the affected area (from the hurricane) - it was about the size of England. Those hundreds of thousands of people aren't going to be rescued immediately. This was the WORST disaster is US history. The real failure was the pre-planning and pre-activity - and the state has it's own reserve troops .
Of course it's easy to get swept up in the Bush is evil/stupid/racist/lier/etc orgy (without having to actually think about it).