Kanye West makes calling Bush a racist all about himself

Kanye West goes on a national telethon to help the victims of Hurrican Katrina and states, "George W. Bush doesn't care about black people." Kanye West storms the stage on the MTV Video Music Awards and grabs the microphone from Taylor Swift, saying her award should have gone to Beyonce instead.

To Kanye West's mind, rather than being the pivotal player without whom neither of these media moments would have taken place, they both go to show how he and the former president have both been accused of racism when really they're merely misunderstood.

The scab over the West's comments about Bush wound got ripped off in Bush's upcoming book "Decision Points" and next week's interview with Matt Lauer, where Bush calls being criticized by the singer as "one of the most disgusting moments in my presidency."


West responded on Wednesday (Nov. 3) that he "definietely can understand the way he feels, to be accused of being a racist in any way, because the same thing happened to me" during a radio interview with Houston's KBXX-FM.

"With him, it was a lack of compassion of him not rushing, him not taking the time to rush down to New Orleans. For me, it was a lack of compassion of cutting someone off in their moment," West says, referring to the 2009 MTV VMA incident. "But nonetheless, I think we're all quick to pull a race card in America. And now I'm more open, and the poetic justice that I feel, to have went through the same thing that he [did] --- and now I really more connect with him on just a humanitarian level.

"For both situations, it was basically a lack of compassion that America felt in that situation."

Sure, blame it on America.

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