Posted on 09/10/2005 5:24:16 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
Kanye West is firing off at America's white leaders again a week after he shocked TV viewers on a Hurricane Katrina telethon by claiming President George W Bush is a racist.
The rapper ignored the telethon script and attacked Bush for not acting quicker to save African-Americans stranded by the storms in Mississippi and Louisiana.
And he isn't finished yet. Appearing on Ellen De Generes chat show on Friday, West insisted Bush and other politicians knew America's Gulf Coast couldn't withstand a hurricane a year before Katrina hit.
"Back in the days when it was time to clean the kitchen, I would try to sweep the dust under the kitchen sink instead of really taking care of it," West said. "and if you spilled something on that floor all that dust came right up in front of your face. That's basically what the flood did.
"They have been trying to sweep us (African-Americans) under the kitchen sink and it was so in people's faces and so on TV... that they couldn't even hide it any more.
"Down there, people are living below the poverty level to start off with, before this happened.
"A year ago I was on tour with Usher and we had a hurricane hit Florida and everybody was saying, 'If this hurricane went to Louisiana, if it went to Mississippi, they wouldn't be able to handle it.' (That was) a year ago - and there was nothing done about it."
This guy is a major league idiot. Seriesly.
I think it is about time Kanye West hired an engineering firm to give him a project estimate in time and money for the upgrade of the levees.
He won't like that he can't blame the levee failure on any administration within the last decade.
Guess I'll have to boycott. It shouldn't be too hard since I only heard of him about a week ago.
Kenya West needs to stop the double standard. Didn't he say that white people should stop using black slang until the slang is old and not so cool anymore?
Wait a minute, George Bush is the racist one. Not Kanye.
Only white people are racist, never the other way around.
it must hurt to be so dumb and so envious
You've got to be joking. "Engineering" and "project estimate" are terms that he has quite probably never written, spoken, nor communicated in any manner - not even in ebonical form.
Hmmm,
I don't listen to his music and I don't watch football.
Well that was an easy boycott.
"Back in the days when it was time to clean the kitchen, I would try to sweep the dust under the kitchen sink instead of really taking care of it," West said.
Back in the days? You would think this guy is 90 years old.
Mr. West, shut up and Rap.
there's a pile of bird poop on my car windshield that has more brains than this loser.
Here's the problem. Rich blacks mouthing off and expecting some other "they" to look after his kin. I see whites waiting on blacks hand and foot while charlatans howl at the moon. Don'tcha think we could find a socialist like Bernie Sanders to introduce a bill for expropriating Kanye's fortune for Katrina victims?
so, did kunta kanye rush in to help the white folks in fla? i doubt it.. by the way, did his business manager let him know what the maximum amount that he could give is, yet? or is he still counting all his millions?
Why is that racist getting any more free press? He's an embarrassment to all humanity.
I predict this guy will be wrapping at JCPenny next Christmas.
Kanye West assumes that he is immune to human weakness and is therefore able to make other people into racists by calling them names. He has a strong need to feel embarrassed but does not realize it. Given an honest mirror, he probably closes his eyes.
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