George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People
Singer Kanye West, in a promotional TV appearance with Mike Meyers for the NBC telethon to raise money for Katrina victims.
[Kanye -- not reading from teleprompter, as planned]: "I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they are looting if you see a white family it says they are looking for food. (...) those are my people down there. (...) "We already realize a lot of the people that could help are at war now fighting another way and they've given them permission to go down and shoot us."
[Myers, visibly uncomfortable, reads from prompter script. Camera cuts back to Kanye, who pauses, then says]
"George Bush doesn't care about black people!"
[camera abruptly switches back to a stunned Myers, then to actor Chris Tucker]
[Kanye -- not reading from teleprompter, as planned]: "I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they are looting if you see a white family it says they are looking for food. (...) those are my people down there. (...) "We already realize a lot of the people that could help are at war now fighting another way and they've given them permission to go down and shoot us."
[Myers, visibly uncomfortable, reads from prompter script. Camera cuts back to Kanye, who pauses, then says]
"George Bush doesn't care about black people!"
[camera abruptly switches back to a stunned Myers, then to actor Chris Tucker]
11-06-2007
