<p>you can download this short commercial clip and see it.</p>
<p>don't know if this is in violation of any rules, but this isn't a song or anything. just something that can also be seen on a Red Cross commercial. plus, this makes people more aware and sympathetic of the situation, whcih benefits all.</p>
<p>in case you don't want to download it, kanye west basically say on air..."BUSH DOESN"T CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE."</p>
<p>i saw this on tv and my i'm just glad i have evidence to prove to people how kanye really is (that being a self righteous and cocky rapper). i mean, his comment was just plain stupid. i'm not a republican, i'm not white (i'm hispanic), and i don't like or support bush in any way. nor do i think all was done to help the people sooner or prepeare new orleans better for a hurricane. </p>
<p>with that said, kanye's comment was just childish and uneducated. i mean, he's famous and should know that people are going to take his opinion as the possible overall feeling of other black people, which it is not. yes, there are other black activist and politician complaining that this is about race but other black activists have said that isn't the case. anyway, i think saying that they aren't helping as much bc people are black is just BS. i will say this though...i think if all those people in N.O. were white, then help may have come somewhat sooner or a bigger deal would have been made about it. but i don't think that the gov or military is "consciously" going too slow because they are black. i just think that if they were white, perhaps things would be a bit different in terms of how quickly things were carried out. anyway, it's hard to explain what i'm trying to say, so just forget the last couple of sentences....</p>
<p>back to kanye's comment. bush doens't not care about black people. bush is just an idiot who doesn't know what he's doing. it could have been white people or asian or hispanics down there and that wouldn't have made bush's decisions any smarter or different. maybe it would have made the overall governments decisions a bit different...but thats another subject that i failed at trying to explain.</p>
<p>anyway, kanye is just an ignorant black artist. and no, i'm not in any way saying he's ignorant because he's black. that's not what i mean at all. it's the fact that he's ignorant mixed with the fact that he's black that makes him say "bush doesn't care about black people." if he was ignorant and white he probably would say something like "bush did all he could."</p>
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<p>nice contradiction.</p>
<p>You can't be serious. Bush doesn't care about blacks; he has never. He's an elitist, he could care less.</p>
<p>see, i knew i wouldn't be able to explain it. here's what i'm trying to say. i don't think the mil and gov are thinking "oh its just black people, we don't have to try THAT hard." so in that sense, they aren't going slow on purpose because the people are black.</p>
<p>however, if the people had been white, i think that for some reason the gov, mil, and media would have made a bigger deal about it just because of certain reasons i can't really explain well. </p>
<p>here's an example. if you see a stranger fall hard off a bike, you'd go over and ask if they were ok and tell them to calm down and not move and get help somewhere. but if you saw your sister or mom fall hard off a bike, you'd probably run as fast as you could to help them and panick more and do things more quickly and efficiently. you would do EVERYTHING IN YOUR POWER to help your family member out. so basically you aren't necessarily consciously discriminating against the stranger at all, but had it been a relative, you would have reacted differently in a better way. it's just kid of how you'd naturally react.</p>
<p>anyway, that's what i was trying to say. and i still don't think bush "doens't care" about the black people. given, he's not black and therefore can't connect with the black community or feel the natural bond, but i still don't think he doesn't care in a racist sense. i mean, if he doens't care that way, then he's racist, and that's just messed up and extremely sad. it'd also be one more reason for me to dispise him...</p>
<p>so bush's sisters and mothers are whites, while he's a stranger to blacks.</p>
<p>i get it now.</p>
<p>I do agree with coqui a little. I see it all the time in the news. Victims who are white get a lot of media attention and aid while those who are not either get little or none at all. It's sad to say, but it's true. They have actually been a thread about this issue in the parent's cafe. I will not say it's downright racism but it does have it's roots in it. Subconsciously, we may feel more sympathy for whites because of their wholesome "all-American" image. Again, unfortunate. </p>
<p>How much this will impact the relief aids of New Orleans? I don't know. New Orleans, Alabama, and Mississippi have HUGE African-American populations. I know the government will not neglect them. That's just inhumane. However, race, in some subconscious way, may be a factor in all this, directly or indirectly.</p>
<p>Bush Let Blacks Twist In The Wind For 5 Days without Help!</p>
<p>Friday, September 2nd, 2005 </p>
<p>Dear Mr. Bush: </p>
<p>Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag. </p>
<p>Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national disasters. How come they weren't there to begin with? </p>
<p>Last Thursday I was in south Florida and sat outside while the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed over my head. It was only a Category 1 then but it was pretty nasty. Eleven people died and, as of today, there were still homes without power. That night the weatherman said this storm was on its way to New Orleans. That was Thursday! Did anybody tell you? I know you didn't want to interrupt your vacation and I know how you don't like to get bad news. Plus, you had fundraisers to go to and mothers of dead soldiers to ignore and smear. You sure showed her! </p>
<p>I especially like how, the day after the hurricane, instead of flying to Louisiana, you flew to San Diego to party with your business peeps. Don't let people criticize you for this -- after all, the hurricane was over and what the heck could you do, put your finger in the dike? </p>
<p>And don't listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal how you specifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for New Orleans this summer for the third year in a row. You just tell them that even if you hadn't cut the money to fix those levees, there weren't going to be any Army engineers to fix them anyway because you had a much more important construction job for them -- BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ! </p>
<p>On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home, I have to say I was moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot descend from the clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you could catch a quick look of the disaster. Hey, I know you couldn't stop and grab a bullhorn and stand on some rubble and act like a commander in chief. Been there done that. </p>
<p>There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to nothing. Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming Chicken Littles. There is nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so wide it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to Cleveland. </p>
<p>No, Mr. Bush, you just stay the course. It's not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get out of town. C'mon, they're black! I mean, it's not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don't make me laugh! Race has nothing -- NOTHING -- to do with this! </p>
<p>You hang in there, Mr. Bush. Just try to find a few of our Army helicopters and send them there. Pretend the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit.</p>
<p>The C Student from Andover & Yale let Black & poor whites twist in the wind for five freakin days. He's a class concious Racist that cares nothing about poor blacks or whites. The media is also Racist in how they portrayed black people during this crisis. If you were knee deep in feces, urine & water and their was no help from the incompetent Government led by the C Student, would'nt you break down the doors and grab clothes, food, shoes, batteries, underwear or whatever was available to survive after being abondoned by your Racist Government? The idiots who stole TV's were criminals before the Hurricane. Why does the media portray whites sympathetically as getting food & clothing for the families and blacks are portrayed as looting animals?</p>
<p>Why does the media portray whites sympathetically as getting food & clothing for the families and blacks are portrayed as looting animals?</p>
<p>That is a good question you asked HardStylePrep. I' am black, and I had family who lived in N.O. They werent poor but that werent rich ethier, middle class you could say. I have been to N.O several times, but what the media covered on TV, where the poorest parts of N.O, the media covered the black people who where already poor in the first place, and who lived in the "hood" of N.O. I do believe the media had know right to show those two black ladies fighting, or kids fighting. Yes they are going to act unsually because they have been stranded for a long period of time. Some have no, food, clothes, water etc.. If the hurricane would of hit the suburbs of N.O where middle class/ upper class white's stay. I know for a fact that there would of been more help coming in.</p>
<p>Haha, I thought I was the only one who noticed it at first. For what its worth, I think Kanye had a lot of courage to come on live network television, ignore his prescripted lines and speak his mind.</p>
<p>You people need to get a life. You can't blame everything that goes wrong in life on Bush. Has the government's response been everything it should have been? No, clearly not. But, the first thing you have to think of is that the federal government is the third entity that messed up in the line. First, the city of New Orleans did a terrible job, then the state of Lousiana did a terrible job, and THEN the federal government did a pretty bad job. I highly doubt Bush is sitting in his office thinking, "Hmm, there's a lot of Black people in New Orleans, I think I'll delay the aid." Come on, be a little more mature and stop trying to politicize a tragedy.</p>
<p>That's the funniest video I've seen in a while. Haha Mike Myers and Chris Tucker looked so nervous after Kanye West said that. They were speechless. But come on guys, lets be real. Of course George Bush doesn't care about Black people. We all know that. He doesn't care about lots of different types of people. Sure, he'll do things for them, but thats just because he's a politician and has learned how to be phony. The problem with George Bush is that he's not as slick a politician as others, so he's just not as effectively and convincingly phony as the rest. Duh George Bush doesn't care about black people. If a more affluent area (I'm talking money, not race here) had been struck, I'm pretty positive that aid would have been mobilized a hell of a lot faster, and that we wouldn't be seeing the pictures that we're seeing right now. It also has to do with the lousy handling of the state government, etc etc. It shouldn't be any surprise to anyone that George Bush isn't running down to NO to help a bunch of poor Black people... Because you realize, most politicians <em>don't</em> care about black people, or asian people, or hispanic people, except for when they can put them in a commercial to show how diverse their supporters are.</p>
<p>^^This is probably more true than what I said, my point was more to say that it's stupid to blame the entire thing on the feds and Bush.</p>
<p><a href="http://hosted.planetether.net/referral.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://hosted.planetether.net/referral.jpg</a> that speaks for itself.</p>
<p>Yeah Yahoo had to take down those captions. It's subtle stuff like that in the media (purposeful or not) that affects our subconcious attitudes towards members of the other race.</p>
<p>I think he should have planned out his first part better. He was stumbling and mumbling, but the idea that all the people that could have helped were busy in Iraq had potential. The second part, while probably true, is the kind of thing that hurts race relations in America by making all whites say, "all black people ever think about is race".</p>
<p>But I'm not gonna lie, abandoning a script and making an impromptu comment like that on live tv will give Kanye incredible streed cred and probably boost his record sales by a few million.</p>
<p>wow. thanks for the post dcfca. if you look hard they both seem to be holding a loaf of bread.</p>
<p>Kanye's only half right: Bush doesn't care about people, period.</p>
<p><a href="http://hosted.planetether.net/referral.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://hosted.planetether.net/referral.jpg</a> that speaks for itself.</p>
<p>Hm, those "white" people don't look exactly white, they woman looks like she could be hispanic or biracial. Or are you making the racist assumption that all fair skinned people are caucasian?</p>
<p>Hardstyleprep, give credit where credit's due. Micheal Moore wrote that. </p>
<p>coqui, what you're explaining is the problem. the fact that there is a so-called subconcious difference between the government's treatment of different races is more dangerous than outright racism, which can be fought against.</p>
<p>Bush takes forever and a day to help anyone. The fact that the majority here is black has little to do with it, although I wouldn't deny that he likely is racist.</p>
