Sean Bossinger’s Doings

Kanye West, a rapper, stunned an entire nation, but probably no one more than Mike Meyers, his sidekick for the evening, when he uttered these seven words: “George Bush doesn't care about black people.”  Perhaps the FCC will now change the seven words you can't say on TV or Radio…  Hmmm… Censorship at its best.

Here's another funny article about this Westian faux pas: http://www.deadbrain.com/news/article_2005_09_04_0533.php.

I don't particularly agree with Mr. West's assessment of George Bush.  I do think that Mr. Bush is slightly less adept at integrating African Americans into his circle of friends than Bill Clinton was, but then again, Mr. Clinton grew up with more people of color, and really didn't seem to look at them based on color of skin.  I don't make the same assumptions or assessment about George Bush.

My friend either posted publicly, or e-mailed me, the AP pictures where a white family was picking up some food at the local store, while a young black male was looting bread and water. 

Kanye West had a point to make, pulling the proverbial race card, and got a bit too emotional, in my opinion.  Yes, I agree that there are problems in New Orleans that are race-based.  Especially now.  32% of the city lives at or below the poverty line.  The city is a predominantly African-American city.  Since African-Americans are overrepresented in all facets of population that are considered negative (poverty, jail populations, etc.), one must make conjecture that they are also overrepresented in that 32% of the population of New Orleans that is the living poor.

Regardless of the economic or racial status of the individuals, our response was deplorable.  There is no excuse for how long it took us to start getting aid to these people.  Coming from an area that was decimated by Andrew, I can attest that the response to Katrina was not as good as Andrew, and the response for Andrew took a day too long.

Anyhow, enough grandstanding…

I'll stop.