In an act of unprecedented stupidity at a benefit concert and telethon for the victims of hurricane Katrina, some guy named Kanye West used one of the worst disasters in U.S. history to espouse his completely thoughtless and baseless political sputum.
In the video, in which Kanye and Mike Myers were supposed to read from a script, Kanye was so nervous he was out of breath when Myers threw to him. That was because he was about to do something he had never done before- tried to sound like he knew the first thing about his own political opinions. He abandoned the script in favor of what I hope is a long and painful career suicide.
I looked the guy up on Google because I was curious to see if he was actually a professional fucktard. Sure enough, I was right-
I'm the last to say that a person isn't entitled to say what they want about another political party, but you'd think that even a democrat would have better taste than to try and politicize something like this. Yes, the irony there was intentional. Stop crying.
After a scripted few sentences from Mike Myers, West opens his festering face hole and says the following-
I hate the way they portray us in the media. You see a black family, it says, "They're looting." You see a white family, it says, "They're looking for food."
I think I actually saw the footage he's talking about, and I remember thinking "this is going to cause a shit storm" when I realized which group was being called what. So through the magic of TiVo, I watched it again. The family with food was looking for food, and the family with a television and a cart full of stereo equipment was looting. For anyone too goddamn stupid to understand this- food and water are necessary to survive. A home theater is not. Unless African Americans switched to a diet of transistors and didn't tell anyone, skin color is irrelevant.
And, you know, it's been five days [waiting for federal help] because most of the people are black. And even for me to complain about it, I would be a hypocrite because I've tried to turn away from the TV because it's too hard to watch.
Or maybe you're a hypocrite for living in your eleven bedroom mansion and not offering ten of those bedrooms to displaced victims. Maybe you're a hypocrite for wearing a suit that is worth more than most of these oppressed people made in the past two years. Maybe you're a hypocrite for wearing that suit while flying in a private jet to a benefit concert where you try to tell the rest of society that the black man's oppression is insurmountable. Maybe not- I personally don't think so. You earned your status, and you are entitled to use it however you want. I think maybe you're a guy who was blessed with enough talent to have all of that stuff and you want to do what you can to help- just like all of the rest of us. White or black, rich or poor, liberal or conservative. The worst thing you can do with your position is use it to turn the focus away from helping these people by trying to assign blame. Nice job.
I've even been shopping before even giving a donation, so now I'm calling my business manager right now to see what is the biggest amount I can give, and just to imagine if I was down there, and those are my people down there. So anybody out there that wants to do anything that we can help -- with the way America is set up to help the poor, the black people, the less well-off, as slow as possible.
I'm about to say something that will piss a lot of people off, so read carefully- America's federal disaster relief system is set up to help everyone -especially the poor- as quickly as possible, but they can't do a damn thing until a state or local authority asks for it. The reason (especially during natural disasters) that it looks like the poor are the worst off is because they are. That's why it's called poor and not awesome.
In almost every city in the nation, the low lying land is the cheapest land because it is prone to things like this. Therefore it is usually populated by the poorest demographic, whatever that may be. The exception to this is government subsidized disaster insurance for people can afford to live in places like California and Florida, which I think is a crime. Rebuilding a 3 million dollar house every two years because it was built on a fault line should be the owner's responsibility, not yours and mine. In any case, most of the wealthy in the area had a means (money, car, whatever) to get out before everything went down- but not all. Some of them waited too long and are now living with everyone else. It's life in the real world.
I mean, the Red Cross is doing everything they can. We already realize a lot of people that could help are at war right now, fighting another way -- and they've given them permission to go down and shoot us!
Bull. Shit. You. Ignorant. Douchebag.
No one has given anyone permission to shoot "you". If someone breaks into someone else's house or place of business in this situation, they should know there is a risk of being killed. Nothing necessary for survival will be found in a house that has been underwater for a week or a store that has long since been stripped of food and water. If Barbara Bush's insensitive comments (which implied that the homeless are better off in the astrodome) got plastered all over the internet in a matter of seconds, I'm reasonably sure that a D-list rapper would not be the only one privileged to an executive order to freely murder people because they were black.
Then a confused Mike Myers tries to salvage the situation and does a crappy job of not just knocking this guy out to make him shut up-
Myers: And subtle, but in many ways even more profoundly devastating, is the lasting damage to the survivors' will to rebuild and remain in the area. The destruction of the spirit of the people of southern Louisiana and Mississippi may end up being the most tragic loss of all.
During all of this, the only mildly amusing part is that Mike Myers, who is an excellent improvisational comedian, was dumbstruck. Yet for some reason, he hands the mike back to captain jackass, who utters this astoundingly uninspired parting shot-
George Bush doesn't care about black people!
That must be why his cabinet is chock full of them. Maybe you don't identify with educated black people, but they are still black.
Try shutting the hell up and observing reality if you want the truth. If you don't like the truth, quit bitching and do whatever you can to change it. If mistakes were made in the process of delivering aid (and I believe they were), now is not the time to point fingers. Now is the part where we are supposed to help each other out. So now I'm going to follow my own advice and quit bitching...
 Dusty
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54 Comments:
the only good that came out of this is that i have another reason to hate kanye west. "ridiculously bad music" is getting pushed farther and farther down the list.
Oh god, my stomach hurts. I hate that guy since he release a single called "Jesus Walks" and went on every TV show he could get his hands on with his hardluck story about writing and recording it with his jaw wired shut.
Oh. My. God.
Seriously, you're on a talk show. What about everyone else who has had their jaw wired shut...ya know...ever?
This man has displayed exemplary amounts of tooliocity since the beginning, Dusty.
Another good perspective: http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=8693
Dang, Dusty! Even when you're seriously kicking some serious ass that's in serious need of a serious ass-kicking, you just crack me UP.
You, go!
Thanks for the excellent commentary Dusty. Along with the humor. I wish I could be half the writer you are.
http://www.petitiononline.com/mindset/petition.html
That was seriously awesome. I'm going to see if I can get away with quoting you in a sociology paper.
I'm glad to know there are still some smart people out there. Kanye West pissed me off long before this...
This is why I'd rather live in France.
What a jackass.
-ash
If a President can initiate legislation regarding the institution of marriage, a power that is explicitly granted in our American Constitution to the State Legislatures, I believe that President should show the same disregard for bureaucratic red-tape when faced with a disaster of this magnitude.
Rock on Dusty.
Alek, Ohio
On the 'race thing', you know those armed thugs shooting at rescue workers, medical teams and fire/rescue teams? Raping and knifing people in the superdome? Stealing food from the weaker ones? Taking things from the bodies of the dead?
I forget...weren't all those thugs with the AKs and stolen shotguns, ah, Norwegians? I thought so.
And about Pisshead West - As has been said before - no one is lower on the scale of scumbaggery than the ones who use the bodies of the dead as soapboxes to spew their mindless drivel, whether they are typical democrap politicians or minimally talented wannabe 'artistes'.
Rock on, Dusty.
Being ignorant is my fault there. I apologise - and Thank You Dusty for correcting me. You are now my Google News.
As with what Schoey said, I think this is going to cause a completely misdirected shit storm and most people will be missing the point, which is that the dumb-ass should have shut the hell up and Myers should have shot him down in a moment.
Maybe he knows something we don't. I doubt it.
Just goes to show how hard improv can be sometimes...
Absolutely. It couldn't have been said better.
This is great.
Although, P-Diddy (that's his current name right??), was telling everyone - "Vote or DIE!"
So I say, fuck morons, go to work every day like usual, drink beer & donate time or money as you're capable.
DShuey
It would seem that Vincent may have not actually read the article, or missed the point(s) of most of the other people posting...none of it was about Bush. Not about trying to scapegoat people who were not responsible in the first place for the safety of the city of New Orleans. It was about the whimpering Democrat elected officials there, refusing to accept responsibility for their utter and inexcusable failure to safeguard the people of that area, namely, the Governor and the Mayor. There is a post above by someone named Galt which also sums it up pretty well.
Bush is not the governor, mayor, or head of any Louisiana governmental department. He was not elected to watch over Louisiana so that the Gov and the Mayor could sit around with their thumbs up their, um, noses, counting their bribes and kickbacks and never caring about the people who put them in office.
And we didn't hear people over the last couple of years sobbing about 'Bush' when hurricanes hit Florida, Alabama and Mississippi. That is because their governors and officials managed to take time out, notice what was happening and decide to evacuate their citizens from harm's way. They already had evacuation routes and procedures in place long before disaster ever hit...'planning', I think they call it. It's a shame the Democrats in office in Louisiana seem to lack that kind of intellect.
But hey, at least they know how to cry and curse and blame everyone else on camera - that must have saved a lotta lives!
Regardless of what color people President Bush likes or dislikes, almost EVERYBODY hates an ignoramus.
There's enough blame to go around here, but consider this; the direct damage from Katrina was bad, but not catastrophic. Most everybody who rode out the storm came out fine and New Orleans was relatively dry. The levees breaking was the unexpected trump card that Mother Nature had up her sleeve. NOBODY, from individuals on up to Bush expected that (though a few prescient individuals had called it).
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/22040b4511b84010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html
This wasn't an event that had an immediate call to action. This was a bad thing that continued to slowly slide to worse and then worse again. The hurricane itself was long gone before everyone knew how bad it was. (not that we really know now)
At what point does the possibility of a cataclysmic event override the meager odds of it happening in a given year? Why were the levees allowed to remain so knowingly insufficient? Funds? Poor understanding of statistics? Human nature?
No excuses from here on out though. The worst natural disaster in the history of the United States has happened/is happening/ and will continue to be a BIG FRIGGIN' MESS for months and possibly years
to come. Just because "The Big One" only hits California once every 10,000 years doesn't mean it can't happen tomorrow. To paraphrase the state lotto "Some year has to win!"
My sister evacuated her family, 4 dogs and 2 cats from Slidell (Just north of New Orleans) and came back to find 60 ft. trees crushing their home. She's a lucky one.
"Poor and not AWESOME" was suhhhhweeeet...
This guy is from LA I think! but I can relate with him and have done what a sheapdog does. You'll have to read the blog to know what I am talking about. It is a great read as well. Keep it coming Dusty!
Please marry me.
Also, ain't no way in hell YOU care about people in NOLA, and if you gave money to the Red Cross, I should inform you of your official accentance into the Hall of Most Sanctimonious Blogging Fudgepackers. Money will never save the descendents of those whom your people (fat, white, meat-chomping bastards) work/worked ever so diligently to annihilate. Kanye West was merely, and brilliantly pointing that out.
Fat white bitches. Eesh.
By the by, it's my experience that those who can determine the difference between intellect and idiocy can (correctly!) spell a typed name to which he/she responds. Also, I'm from NJ - about 73% of my "allies" are white.
-LA
"satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but there own."
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