How do you feel about Kanye West's Comment

[TheEpitome1920]

I agree Kanye. There is NO excuse for the amount of time it took to get people out of the area and/or provide them with food.

[unknown2u]

YAH!!! for Kanye! Its about time we get our voice heard, its about time we get a little more radical and little more vocal about the issues going on.

I know the people in New Orleans could hug Kanye for voicing their opinion live on air. The response time for this disaster is ridiculous, its been 6 days and people are still hungry, stranded, sick and dying!!!

I could understand if this was a THIRD world country, but we are in the RICHEST country in the world and we have these disaster in our backyard. IF this happened in another country we would RUSH out to help but we cant send enough troops in our neighborhood???....Kanye said it right if this was a group of white people this issue would have been solved so ill repeat...



BUSH DOES NOT CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE!!

[squirrely girl]

i'm not sure what part of this situation disgusts me the most but...

i personally know from my own experience as a medic in the US army, that, it only takes FOUR flippin' hours to have a CSH (combat support hospital) set up and fully operational. to not be able to provide medical services to individuals in this situation is freaking beyond my comprehension. there are tons of air force bases in texas where i'm sure there is aircraft just sitting and ft. polk is a JRTC with stockpiles of MREs. why does it honestly take five days to start the process?

- marissa

[Honeykiss1974]

...priceless



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On another note, I agree with Sistermadly - a crucial fundraiser such as this wasn't the place. This was a time for encouraging people to GIVE money because now, people need money - not political agendas.

[jitterbug13]

As ya'll may know, I am a HUGE FAN of Kanye's. I didn't see the telethon. Would I have said what he said on a telethon, probably not. Do I agree what he said? As he would put it, YES SIR!

A lot of people, black and white, have said what he said but not in that language. They tried to twist it around and make it sound "less harsh". I think he's getting all of the attention becasue he didn't BS his statement. I guess this was the only opportunity to say what he (and a lot of people) felt.

If this was Florida, Texas, or even my home state of SC, that help would have been there in a heartbeat. But since it is in LA, MS, and AL, hardly none has arrived and it's very sad. As a survior of a hurricane (Hugo in '89), my family and I didn't have it as nearly as bad as those people in NO. But if we did, I would want someone to come help me ASAP, not 5 days later!!!!

[ladygreek]

We do not need to buy into the White critics that say now I'm not going to give money. That is just a smoke screen. Who knows it may have motivated people to give more money and even better more Black folx to give money.

As a professional fundraiser, I see nothing wrong about what he said at that particular event. The folx who were going to give from their heart still will, and some who weren't going to give may now find it in their heart to give.

[RACooper]

Originally posted by squirrely girl
i'm not sure what part of this situation disgusts me the most but...

i personally know from my own experience as a medic in the US army, that, it only takes FOUR flippin' hours to have a CSH (combat support hospital) set up and fully operational. to not be able to provide medical services to individuals in this situation is freaking beyond my comprehension. there are tons of air force bases in texas where i'm sure there is aircraft just sitting and ft. polk is a JRTC with stockpiles of MREs. why does it honestly take five days to start the process?

- marissa

I think that's one thing that pisses me off the most - the BS about the deployment and set up times for units, I mean I'd understand if the response came in waves as the rapid deployment units deployed on site first followed by supporting waves of troops afterwards. I have seen deployments to disasters and I'm sorry this was a clusterf*ck up until today.

[lostnfound117]

I wish dangon Black Republicans would get a clue after this....

[Conskeeted7]

Kanye did nothing wrong, in my opinion. He expressed some personal feelings. That's all.

Anyone who is distracted from donating to the cause based on this individual who isn't getting any of the money, didn't really want to donate in the first place.

I like that tshirt...where can I get one

[NinjaPoodle]

Originally posted by Proverbs31
I agree with his comment.

Originally posted by Conskeeted7
Kanye did nothing wrong, in my opinion. He expressed some personal feelings. That's all.

I agree also. Period.

[Jill1228]

I love Kanye...I love him even more after what he said! It is about time someone just laid it all out there...to hell with breaking it gently

Originally posted by Sistermadly
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[Sistermadly]

This is kind of unrelated, but now that Chief Justice Rehnquist has died, who wants to bet that the President will appoint Clarence Thomas to the position in the next few weeks or so?

That way, you know, people can't say he doesn't care about black people. They'll then be able to say the Chief Justice doesn't care about black people.

[Kamryn]

Originally posted by Sistermadly
This is kind of unrelated, but now that Chief Justice Rehnquist has died, who wants to bet that the President will appoint Clarence Thomas to the position in the next few weeks or so?

That way, you know, people can't say he doesn't care about black people. They'll then be able to say the Chief Justice doesn't care about black people.

Oh my WOW... That's all I gotta say for now...

[smlwonderdst]

Originally posted by ladygreek
We do not need to buy into the White critics that say now I'm not going to give money. That is just a smoke screen. Who knows it may have motivated people to give more money and even better more Black folx to give money.

As a professional fundraiser, I see nothing wrong about what he said at that particular event. The folx who were going to give from their heart still will, and some who weren't going to give may now find it in their heart to give.

What she said. Those who are/were going to give will do it and a comment from Kanye will not stop them. Those who don't give because of this had no intention of giving in the first place. JMHO.

[ladygreek]

Originally posted by irishpipes

However, I would say that his comment did nothing to help race relations in this country.

Did nothing to help race relations???? His comments were a direct result of the bad race relations that already exist. It was not kumbaya before, why should Black folx be trying to make it a kumbaya moment now?

We are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the daily racism in our lives--subtle and not so subtle. This non-subtle situation exposed it for all to see. And I hope it starts a new revoloution that WILL be televised

The folx on here who know me, know that I am not the one to point to racism everytime something happenes. In fact at first I was one of the ones helping to explain that the Yahoo pics were not a form of racism. But after everything else I have seen and some of the comments over on Chit Chat, I am through playing ambassador.

Unless you have walked in the shoes of anyone of color who has experienced a lifetime of racism then, STFU! Yes I am p*ssed!!!!!!!!

Oh and one more thing. It was a damn if he does, damn if he doesn't for Nagin. He chose to stay in N.O. in a hotel without electricity rather than go to Baton Rouge with the rest of the city officials. But he has been criticized for not going and running the city government. On the other hand, folx who did not know he had stayed in N.O. criticized him for running off to the comforts of Baton Rouge.