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PostPosted: September 10th, 2005, 11:21 pm 
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First off, if you don't know "who Kanye West is" (as quoted from his grammy winning song "Jesus Walks"), he was a long-time producer for Jay-Z and Rock-a-fella Records. In October 2002, he got into a near fatal accident, and broke his jaw in three places. Two weeks after his mouth was wired shut, he recorded the hit "Through the Wire," sampling the hit from Chaka Khan. Since then, he released "The College Dropout," which has since sold 2.7 million copies and won him three grammy awards. His success continues with "Late Registration" which recently debuted at #1 selling 860,000 copies (www.billboard.com).


Now that we got the mini bio out of the way, let us go back to last Friday, September 2, 2005, when he appeared live on a NBC telecast. Instead of saying the rehearsed words in front of the nation, he goes out and attacks President Bush for negligence of the African American community and for failing to aid the struggling citizens of Hurricane Katrina at a faster rate. His opinion has been backed by such artists as Jay-Z, David Banner, and T.I. (www.vh1.com/news/articles...nes=true). Queen Latifah and Steve Harvey also gave their support (newsbusters.org/node/1099).

Of course, you all know that taking swipes at the president has its consequences (i.e. Dixie Chick's album sales of "Home" dropped drastically in late 2002 after a negative comment towards Bush, and since thenm their popularity seems to have dwindled). Laura Bush has quickly responded to Kanye West's verbal acctions with great critcism and dissaproval (www.tampabays10.com/thism...id=18653). Know, I know this subject seems very testy when it comes to freedom of speech, so now I leave the floor open to you, BAI. Do you think Kanye West is merely playing the blame game, or do you feel he has a justified opinion? Please leave your comments. Thank you.

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PostPosted: September 11th, 2005, 2:32 am 
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He's shown more guts than any politician in DC, and this has definitely put his career on the line. Made for a good quote, "George Bush doesn't like black people!". He really put it out there, rather than being a low key activist, he went and made his statement while people were watching him live. I wonder if he'll get fined by the FCC for this. He's justified in his remarks too, Bush has been neglecting African Americans since before he was even president (disenfranchised Florida voters anybody?), and he still is the only president to never visit the NAACP, even though he's taken the most vacations of any president in a long time (not to mention during a time of self-declared war!). Also notice that Bush went so far as to mention Trent Lott's loss of his house in Mississippi and how he'll enjoy sitting on the deck once his new better house is complete, Trent Lott the racist senator. I've got more I could say, but I'll leave it at that, Kanye was justified in his feeling.


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So, you do agree then?

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PostPosted: September 12th, 2005, 3:25 pm 
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I agree what he said about bush.


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I laugh at people who think Bush gives a damn about most citizens in this country. Hope for the next 4 years the end of the world doesn't come about.

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Bush is a puppet. A pawn in Cheney's hands.


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PostPosted: September 14th, 2005, 10:22 am 
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Reki wrote:
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My apologies. I had copied this from a topic I made in BAI

On another note, Bush finally puts the blame on himself:

http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/150948 ... lines=true

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After weeks of asking people to avoid pointing fingers of blame for the slow response to Hurricane Katrina, President Bush took the uncharacteristic move of pointing to himself on Tuesday.

"Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government, and to the extent that the federal government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsibility," Bush said during a White House news conference.

As he prepared for a primetime address to the nation from Louisiana scheduled for Thursday night, the statement from Bush was as close as the administration has come to admitting mistakes since Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast on August 29.

And, for the president who was given high marks for his quick, assured response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the statement was seen as an acknowledgment that in the case of Katrina, the White House was caught flat footed. In the wake of the terror attacks, Bush quickly addressed the nation twice and embraced workers at Ground Zero, but has yet to make a national statement on Katrina and has been faulted for not cutting short his summer vacation to visit the region until several days after the storm hit.

Bush's admission ? which came a day after Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Mike Brown's resignation (see "Embattled FEMA Boss Michael Brown Resigns") ? did not soothe Louisiana Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, who criticized FEMA for its failure to retrieve dead bodies from New Orleans in a timely manner. "No one, even those at the highest level, seems to be able to break through the bureaucracy and get this important mission done," Blanco said. "In death, as in life, our people deserve more respect than they have received."

In the wake of the storm, polls show the president's approval rating at the lowest point in his presidency. Among the topics being considered for Thursday's speech, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, are the naming of a high-profile person to oversee the Katrina clean-up, a relocation plan for the tens of thousands of displaced Gulf Coast residents and a national charge to rally around the victims of Katrina emotionally as well as financially.

And the issue of race continues to hover over the Katrina response, according to an ABC-Washington Post poll in which respondents were asked if Bush let race and poverty affect the speed of the government's response. Seventy-six percent of black and 24 percent of white respondents said "yes." When asked in the same poll if Bush "cares about black people," almost 7 in 10 blacks said "no" (see "Kanye West Stands By Critique Of President Bush At $2 Bill Show").

Meanwhile, a husband and wife who own a New Orleans nursing home where 34 elderly patients are believed to have drowned are the first people to be charged in a major criminal case related to Hurricane Katrina.

Authorities said that if Salvador and Mable Mangano ? the owners of St. Rita's nursing home in Chalmette ? had listened to warnings to evacuate their patients, lives could have been spared. "The pathetic thing in this case was that they were asked if they wanted to move them and they did not," said Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti, according to a report by The Associated Press. "They were warned repeatedly that this storm was coming. In effect, their inaction resulted in the deaths of these people."

With each of the 34 counts of negligent homicide carrying a sentence of up to five years in prison, the Manganos were released on $50,000 bond a piece on Tuesday. The couple's attorney said his clients, who had waited for a mandatory evacuation order that never came, were innocent. With the storm bearing down, they were faced with the choice of risking the health of their fragile patients or trying to keep them comfortable during the storm, attorney Jim Cobb told the AP.

As floodwaters continued to recede, the death toll in Louisiana nearly doubled in just one day, jumping to 423 and bringing the total in the four impacted states to 659.

News also emerged Tuesday that as his constituents scrambled to save their lives, one congressman was using National Guard resources to look in on his property and haul away belongings, according to ABC News. Eight-term Democratic congressman William Jefferson, a senior member of the Ways and Means Committee, was allowed to bypass military blockades set up around the city in order to drop in on his New Orleans home five days after Katrina hit.

According to military sources, after Jefferson asked National Guard troops to take him on a tour of the flooded areas of his congressional district, a five-ton military truck and six military police officers were sent for the job. During the tour, a Guardsman told ABC News, Jefferson asked that the truck take him to his home in the affluent uptown neighborhood in his district ? which was not part of his initial request.

While soldiers waited on his porch for an hour, Jefferson retrieved belongings. When the military truck got stuck in his lawn, soldiers signaled for aid from a Coast Guard helicopter, which was carrying four rescued New Orleanians. A rescue diver twice attemptedto rescue Jefferson, but he refused both times. The helicopter took off after 45 minutes in order to save other stranded flood victims. A second truck was dispatched to bail out the first, and Jefferson and his belongings were dropped off at the Superdome.

Jefferson defended the trip, saying he was checking on his constituents. "I did not seek the use of military assets to help me get around my city," Jefferson told ABC News. "There was shooting going on. There was sniping going on. They thought I should be escorted by some military guards, both to the convention center and uptown."

In other Katrina news:


Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport reopened to commercial flights Tuesday, and Mayor Ray Nagin said such dry sections of the city as the historic French Quarter and central business district could be reopened as early as Monday if the Environmental Protection Agency says the air is safe to breathe.


Army Corps of Engineers Colonel Duane Gapinski estimates that less than half of the flooded city is still under water. With almost 9 billion gallons of water being pumped out per day, New Orleans could be completely drained by October 8.


Power has been restored to 75 percent of the 1.1 million customers in Mississippi and Louisiana who've been in the dark since the storm hit, with around 264,000 ? mostly in downtown New Orleans ? still waiting for the lights to come back on.





This report is provided by MTV News

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Too little too late in my opinion. He still needs to apologize for detaining aid services overnight until he arrived for his first visit so that he could be seen as they rushed in, among other problems besides the "slow response", like sending the national guard overseas. Overseas National Guard, isn't that some kind of oxymoron?


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Beats me. ^_^

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I saw this on the daily show. All I can say is that when he said that, the look on Mike Meyers face was CLASSIC. (classic WTF!)

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