i know everyone else has blogged it but i just can't let this one go without comment
at a recent fundraiser for hurricane katrina, musician (and damn fine hottie) kanye west made an impromptu speech about how the the crisis has broader implications for race relations in the usa.
west "scandalously" claimed that "George Bush doesn't care about black people".
well fuck me dead and call me cunted!
next he'll be claiming that dubya doesn't care about anyone other than rich, white, freedom-loving christian folk.
pull the other one, kanye, it plays 'mr. bojangles'.
he then went on to slam the consistently racist portrayal of african-americans in the US media, asserting:
"I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family, it says they're looting. See a white family, it says they're looking for food."
the media have since denied that there is any truth behind west's accusations.
which is funny cause:
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for those of you without super go-go gadget eyesight, the above article, attached to a picture of an african-american male, describes how "a young man walks through chest deep flood water after LOOTING a grocery store in new orleans..."
meanwhile, the bottom article, attached to a picture of two white people, outlines how "two residents wade through chest-deep water after FINDING bread and soda from a local grocery store..."
hmmm...
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Playing devil's advocate here, but:
The photographer who took the photo of the black man had actually seen him smash in a window and steal the goods, ie, looting.
The other photographer simply came across the white people with the goods. Even though the chances that they looted them are very high, they couldn't say they had 'looted' them without proof (fear of litigation).
I agree with the rest of the post, though.
thanks tuppy!
i was enjoying a nice old-fasdhioned spot of half-informed ranting until you came alomg and rained on my parade.
party pooper.
and besides, i don't know if this was the exact case here, but if i was starving alongside my family, friends, neighbours, etc, i'd be inclined to smash in a grocery store window and loot the fuck out of it too.
Oh, I would too. But I would do it surreptiously, so no one actually saw me do it.
Then I would sue the newspaper who printed photos of me looting for besmirching my good name.
In the words of Barbara Bush, it would 'work out very well'.
you're a sly one, lady.
a VERY HOT sly one.
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