To quote an old Dr. Hook song, it was in the right place, but it happened at the wrong time. People -- okay,
those people -- are already hesitant to send money to charitable organizations because of the race/class of the people involved. They became even less inclined to help after the looting started. Now Kanye goes and smacks his jaws on National TV, saying what a lot of us think anyway but generally we have the sense to keep to ourselves -- saying it during a
fundraiser, no less?
The people in NO are going to suffer more because of what he said. It was truthful, but not particularly helpful.
BTW, video's here in case you want to see it:
http://media.putfile.com/Kanye79 (windows media), or here
http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Kay...ack-People.mov (QuickTime).
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