Kanye West: Not A Jackass

After performing some random internet searches, I see there is much hating of Kanye West. This hate is due entirely to his accurate political commentary made live on NBC's Hurricane Katrina fundraiser on September 2nd. He was surreptitiously cut off because he veered away from the canned dialogue and then further edited out of the West Coast broadcast.

Some people, although these people are jackasses, are under the impression that Kanye West was opportunistically promoting himself and his album, "Late Registration," by emotionally conveying his dismay for the Bush Administration's racist handling of Katrina victims, as well as racist broadcasts by the media that portrayed all those left behind and suffering as savages. These jackasses even allege that what he said makes him a "reverse racist," whatever the hell that may be.

If Jim Litke can make this astute comment for an AP editorial, we have already proved West's point: "But if a reporter can interview a man standing outside a looted drugstore, and record his reluctance at having to go inside and steal pads for incontinence, why couldn't someone get medical supplies to the people huddled at the Superdome or the convention center in time, or the buses promised to evacuate them?"

Read this eyewitness report and you tell me West is wrong. Read this report and tell me that the entire Government, from top to bottom, is not entirely to blame for every dead baby, grandmother, grandfather, child, father and mother, sister, brother. And tell me, then, the fact these folks were poor and Black had nothing to with the botched evacuation and aid effort.


Trapped in New Orleans by the flood--and martial law