Kanye West Doesn’t Care About White People
by Dallas JenkinsOn television, how often do you see the Heartland, the South, or innocence portrayed as positive, or as the innocent victim of thuggery or artistic elitism gone awry? If I told you that it happened over the weekend, would you have guessed that MTV was the network that aired it?
As it turns out, Joe Wilson isn’t the only inappropriate interrupter of the last week. If you haven’t seen Kanye West’s shocking-only-to-people-who-have-never-seen-or-heard-Kanye-West-perform-or-say-words outburst at the normally classy and restrained MTV Video Music Awards, take 90 seconds and watch the train wreck. I don’t want to say it was awkward, but I haven’t seen a performer arouse that many embarrassed faces since…well, since Kanye West did the exact same thing at the European VMAs in 2007, which at the time was the most awkward TV moment since Kanye West hijacked a Katrina charity TV show to rant that “George Bush doesn’t care about black people.“
A lot of people are focusing on what a jackass he was (UPDATE: Apparently President Obama actually used the word “jackass” to describe him, which I just found out, and which gives the President a couple bonus points in my book), but that’s too easy. I’m choosing to focus on the bright side for a few moments before I **SPOILER ALERT** play the race card. The bright side inspired my opening paragraph, which was sincere. Think about what happened in this moment, because it’s not something you’ll see too often in entertainment.
Hip people don’t like country music. They don’t like the performers or the fans unless a performer alienates its fans by saying something hip, like the Dixie Chicks. Hip people don’t like innocence unless it’s portrayed in some sort of ironic way, like a vixen in a school girl uniform, or a young child with a knife behind its back. Hip people do like controversy and people who push the envelope, which is why they liked the “wardrobe malfunction” at the Super Bowl. They loved the idea that a bunch of heartland families recoiled in shock as something traditionally innocent like the Super Bowl was invaded by hipness.
MTV is for hip people.
But hipness took a hit at the VMAs, as normally hip people saw its ugly side. Wide-eyed heartland girl Taylor Swift was expressing her shock at receiving her award, acknowledging that as a country singer she wasn’t a favorite to win on MTV, when Kanye West literally grabbed the mic from her and tried to remind everyone that the hip choice wasn’t made. A few people cheered (as MTV teens are wont to do whenever a person holding a mic emits sound), but most people booed or acted shocked. After Kanye walked off the stage, the crowd started to cheer Taylor even more. Kanye, an MTV icon, was kicked out. Later, Beyonce won a big award and invited Taylor back onstage to finish her speech. Classy move. And the response to the moment has been overwhelmingly negative towards Kanye and positive towards Taylor. This can only help her albums and hurt his, which is cool.
I consider it a nice moment. Period. Good triumphed over bad.
No need to make this about race.
Buuuutttt… since in the last week conservatives have been accused of being racist by Maureen Dowd (referring to Joe Wilson), Bill Maher (referring to Drudge), and Acorn (referring to Fox for showing video of black people talking), I thought I’d take a moment to ask a few hypothetical questions. To be clear–I’m NOT saying that Kanye West is a racist, I just have a few questions.
Consider:
What would the reaction have been if Beyonce had won the award and Toby Keith had rushed the stage, grabbed the mic out of her hands, and yelled to the crowd that Taylor Swift should have won?
If this scene had played out as fiction in a feature film, how would the media elite have reacted to a scene perpetuating the stereotype of a black man aggressively grabbing something from the hands of a southern white girl?
Do you think we’ll be seeing any columns from Maureen Dowd or Entertainment Weekly pointing out racial undertones in the moment, mentioning Kanye’s history of discussing race or pointing out that the times he’s rudely interrupted a televised moment have all involved white people? Such as when he lost the Best New Artist award to, as he called her, “Redneck Woman” Gretchen Wilson, and stormed out of the American Music Awards in protest?
When do you think we’ll hear from Gloria Steinem or Gloria Allred defending Taylor as a victim of male domination (especially since MTV didn’t let her finish her speech because Kanye had caused her to run out of time), mentioning the history of female treatment in hip hop music?
Will the Southern Defense Coalition or the White Anti-Defamation League be making any statements?
Just curious…
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"What would the reaction have been if Beyonce had won the award and Toby Keith had rushed the stage, grabbed the mic out of her hands, and yelled to the crowd that Taylor Swift should have won?"
Oh! Oh! Ask me! Ask me!
EVERYONE knows what would happen in that scenario….
Brilliant assessment.
Kanye West is a racist
I suppose one of the few mitigating circumstances about Obama's election was it removed the Teflon from Kanye within the entertainment community he had earned for his rants against Bush after Katrina. Had McCain won the election, odds are pretty good West could have gone up there and smashed his Hennessy bottle on top of Swift's head like he was christening an ocean liner and he would have had much larger number of defenders of his right to keep it real.
Better yet, suppose Mr. West had tried to jerk a microphone our of Mr. Keith's hand……..I think they'd still be scraping Mr. West's parts from the stage as of today.
This story has gone on about 3 days to long. Forget about it.
Sometimes articles on this blog written by non-writers are a real stretch. But this one is right on target. Excellent points made, and made well.
Kanye West Doesn’t Care About White People
I suppose that's OK, as I don't care about Kanye West.
Kanye's always been an arrogant piece of s**t – he finally just picked a target that even MTV's audience thought was too far. Same with Perez Hilton and all his garbage. But, like usual, give him a couple months and he'll be back to normal and all will be forgotten.
Honestly, a gigantic crack in the Earth could open up and swallow all of these people and I wouldn't shed 1 tear.
Even Robin from the Howard Stern show eluded that Kanye's act was racial. Yes a beautiful, smart, rich woman in the entertainment industry spoke out.
“George Bush doesn’t care about black people.“
What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Totally agree.
He's still a gay fish.
west luvs the honkies and crackers – they are stupid enough to buy his crap and he laughs all the way to the bank
Wow I had a very salient point on this topic and the administrator is blocking it, though it contained no profanity or inflammatory remarks. Common Big Hollywood!
LOL! "I am not a gay fish!"
I went and bought Taylor's album the day after Kanye pulled his drunken moron act. I'd always meant to do it but never gotten around to it. Was that racist?
Sort of like a black Napoleon complex?
You're giving this guy too much respect by calling him Mr.
You're giving this guy too much respect by calling him Mr. He's a punk.
I think Spike Lee suffers from it too
Kanye is a dillusional man who thinks he is the greatest human being to ever record music, so therefore everything he says and does is perfectly okay in his book.
Unfortunatly, he's going to keep doing this crap and getting away with it, because he'll always have fans apologizing for his behavior.
I could not believe the stuff people have been posting on other message boards defending this guy:
"He was drunk. We all do things when we're drunk."
"People are acting like he jumped up on stage and hit her"
"Oh, that's what he does."
I guess if he did hit her, the apologists would be saying "It's not lik he killed her!"
Kanye West hates white people. He is a racist. Too bad Taylor Swift's father, brother, uncle or some other chivalrous man did not come on stage and give West the beat down he deserved.
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I think you're right!!!
me too and can't even go back to re-edit…
Kind of a walking contradiction this guy…. His performance on Leno's new show was priceless. Torn to pieces after Leno mentioned his mother and then straight back to the rap game… Well done. Well done.
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When my kid went to see Kanya West a couple of years back she told me that it was practically an all white crowd.
WORD!!! HE IS A LITTLE GAY FISH NAPOLEAN DOUCHEBAG ISN'T HE?
ya, that's what helps make the South Park (Gayfish) episode so funny…he's dumb as a rock too…
who says America ISN'T the land of opprotunity? Kanye does ehatever it is he does to make lot's o' $$$, acts like a complete ass often, flys around the world in a private airliner drinking congac and I hafta take my shoes off in friggin' England to get on a damn plane…
Everything wrong with western society is represented perfectly by Kanye West. The education offered by the American public school system, which is almost non-existent, coupled with a generation coddled beyond all measure, The Confetti Generation (it's always about me, I'm the star, etc)… he is right in one thing; in many, many ways he IS the face of his generation.
(All apologies to the many wonderful and upstanding members of said generation. James. Hanna. Many more. I'm not that much older than you are, but your upbringing is by-and-large not something I can relate to. A guy like Kanye West would have have had his ego beaten out of him by his older brothers or father in any previous generation. No different than a guy like Eminem, btw. Both are not real men in any sense but chronological age.)
ya, that's what helps make the South Park (Gayfish) episode so funny…he's dumb as a rock too…
who says America ISN'T the land of opprotunity? Kanye does whatever it is he does to make lot's o' $$$, acts like a complete ass often, flys around the world in a private airliner drinking congac and I hafta take my shoes off in friggin' England to get on a damn plane…
Never a can of mace when you need it.
I would re-edit mine but it is far less offensive or controversial than most of what is already posted here, so I wouldn't know where to start. I am really disappointed with BH right now.
yup, unbelieveable…
this whitekid/black rap paradigm has to eventually run it's course, right?
I lover hendrix as a kid (he was already dead) but I thought he was actually musically talented…
can this guy actually sing, or rap, juggle, do card tricks or whatever?
I had that problem yesterday on Big Government, i think they recalibrated the filters…
have you no shame?
and he's a gayfish…
For the record, the "southern" Ms. Swift is from Pennsylvania, as opposed to Kanye, who's clearly from Out of his Ever-Loving Mind…
Kanye West=GAY FISH
For once ould it or could it be possible that this type of guy, mainly known for being inappropriate, could fade into obscurity. On the boards they say he is a great producer but since I know nothing of RAP/Hip Hop I cannot say. Producion is probably of paramount concern since real musical talent is not usually in sight.
ya…in some ways it's too bad there isn't a little bloody grease spot on the stage where Kanye once stood.
Kanye doesn't care about anyone but Kanye…
It happens from time to time and I am not convinced that some of these glitches at this and other conservative sites is the direct actions of hackers. If a hacker can bust into a site vs. denial of service attack (easy to do) then they can screw around with the underlying code running the site. Anybody know if there is any truth to this theory?
It happens from time to time and I am convinced that some of these glitches at this and other conservative sites is the direct actions of hackers. If a hacker can bust into a site vs. denial of service attack (easy to do) then they can screw around with the underlying code running the site. Anybody know if there is any truth to this theory?
Gay Fish. South Park rocks on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
they ran "Gayfish" on Comedy Central back to back FOUR TIMES IN A ROW the other night.
Sammy Davis Jr. DEFINATELY was afflicted!
Ol' Sammy Davis Jr. had more real talent in one little finger than Kanye or any of these clowns have in their whole collective bodies, combined.
They'd be using a squeegee…
In my imagination someone would have tried this sort of thing when Lee Marvin was alive. If Lee Marvin had been the oresenter at an awards show and some lowlife tried to pull a stunt like this, especially against a teenaged girl, Smackdown would have been too mild a word. He wasn't only a Hollywood badass but he was one in real life too.
In my imagination someone would have tried this sort of thing when Lee Marvin was alive. If Lee Marvin had been the presenter at an awards show and some lowlife tried to pull a stunt like this, especially against a teenaged girl, smackdown would have been too mild a word. He wasn't only a Hollywood badass but he was one in real life too.
If that had happened, then the "act of chivalry" would have been lost – there would have been huge racial accusations because a white man beat on a (smaller) black man.
That was the funniest thing i ever saw in my life. I watched it all 4 times.
Remember Eminem getting a face-full of Borat Butt? Publicity stunt. Kanye West appearing on the first night of Jay Leno the day after he did this? Publicity Stunt.
Barrack Obama saying on tape to ABC (the 24 hour Healhcare commercial channel) Kanye is a jackass. Remember the lesson of Ronald Reagan…done puposefully. Calm the whitey's down..show them you think the same thing about Kanye as they do.
All of this crap is manufactured. And MTV is for hip people. the last time this was true David Byrne was "letting the days go by" .
I have no proof nor do I know that this theory is true, but I put nothing past anyone!
now THAT is funny!
You must be racist, like me. Heck, I'm not even white.
That guy (can't even say his name now because of the nausea factor) should have been kneed in the jewels by Taylor Swift but then that would have changed the whole dynamic of the event so she was wise not to make the attempt. That guy (again, with the nausea) is merely a footnote in the whole span of human history. Beyonce? I may just have to buy one of her albums.
Yeah, it really bugs me that a white man shouts "He lies" from the audience to a black president (which actually has a basis in reality) and Bill Cosby, President Carter and several others call the white man a "racist". On the other hand a black man walks all the way up to the stage and yanks the mic away from a white girl and proceeds to lambaste her and he's just called a "jackass". Black people are somehow completely incapable of being racists, they can only be VICTIMS of racism. They can use the N word all they want, talk about treating black women horribly, make fun of white people, or just completely disrespect them and it's all fine and dandy.
If black people TRULY want racism to end, if that is what they REALLY want, then they have to take a good hard look in the mirror. They need to stop acting like racists. And with people constantly accusing others of being racist, with absolutely no proof whatsoever that it's actually a correct label, it's never going to end. But that seems to be exactly what they want, they get more mileage by perpetuating racism than ending it.
So make up your minds, are we going to continue propagating racism, or are we going to end it? Because you can't have it both ways.
I recorded it and got strange looks over a pair of glasses perchered on the nose (Charlie Gibson stlye)
of a certain brunette…
I read that he does this ALOT, just another reason I don't watch award shows.
I don't think it's any sort of racism or at least the classic sense. In Kanye West's world, the most important person in it is Kanye West. It's ego. He has to make himself the story. So when he came up on stage, surley drunk off his a$$, he was thinking all the press he would get at a pretty white girl's expense.
He didn't expect the backlash.
Taylor Swift isn't from the south or the "heartland." She's from Pennsylvania.
Also–anyone else find it hilarious that a couple posts below this one is a thread about how unfair it is to call someone a racist when you have no "proof"?
I know the underlying structure is not the rock of stability a lot of people imagine, it is just I have noticed similar problems on other conservative sites and non-political…not so much. It probably has more to do with underlying structure than ideology but there is that coinsidence.
I would love to have watched Taylor Swift deck the little turd right there on the stage. And I imagine, like most hip people, he is all talk an no action, so I'm pretty sure she could have done it. Wouldn't that have been the perfect ending to this scene?
I'm inclined to agree. Probably orchestrated by the NEA. Kanye's just taking a bullet for the messiah.
I agree. The cure for attention-w_____ is the exact opposite of the cure for mold. Quit giving Kanye the satisfaction.
On the other hand, I would love to see what would happen to Kanye if he was to ever interrupt Toby Keith or another man who doesn't take too kindly to being interrupted or disturbed by a narcissistic idiot.
He has the prodigious neck/ear/nose strength to wear colossal sunglasses at all hours of the day, or night. That's kind of impressive. I guess.
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You think if a white artist was to interrupt a black artists acceptance speech in order to espouse another white artist, Rev. Al, Rev. Jackson, Prez. Obama and a plethora of other race baiters would have let it go. They would milk it for months or even years. As Rahm (el communista) Emmanuel says, why waste a tragedy.
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It's not like he peed on her or anything!
/sarc
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She's an Honorary Southerner.
I've had the interesting experience of logging on to either here or hot air and have received a trojan program in return. I'm just saying… Close scruitiny froms somewhere?
Toby Keith would've never done anything as despicable as that because he's an adult.
If any one ever had a death wish its this guy…….why do you bother? His entire sub culture is an aberration.
Okay, you guys stop yapping about Joe Wilson and the allegation that what he did was "racist" and we'll call it even. In fact, drop all "race cards" during the remainder of Obama's first (and hopefully only term) and we'll call it more than even – it would be a frickin' miracle.
How do you know he drinks Hennessy?
Kanye West Is a racist AND a Jack@ss. I don't care about him as a person; but I DO care that HE KNEW he could get away with a boorish act and face little or no flak for it. Bring back shaming.
You do know that some parts of Pennsylvania are called Alabama North, don't you?
Do you people really care WHAT he thinks. The homosapien is a no talent moron!! (that is if you call "Hip/Hop" talent). (And a goofy haircut to boot) White people …WAKE UP and smell the roses!!! You will ALWAYS have racism in this country as long as humans walk the face of the earth. If you think otherwise, your a dope just like that idiot West!!!
Well, then, by definition you can't be a racist. It's the last remaining "whites only" club.
Blacks are there own worst enemy. In less than ten years this rap crap will be ancient history, and all these "talented" rappers will be back in there "hood" on there turf ,mugging and killing each other and others!
Again…THEY WILL DO THEMSELVES IN..JUST A MATTER OF TIME
It's hype, having worked in the entertainment industry, controversy is all they want, the more an artist's name is spoken the more drive he has (and sales). Alot of times when they air shocking things in the news people get, well, shocked and talk about it in opposite manners to defend a certain favorable criteria – in which most cases the actual wronger (Kanye) and righter (Taylor) are proooobably in the background watching their plan be built.
It's a nasty industry out there and it seems that the more time that passes, the worse it gets.. don't get so involved with other peoples business, it's why the world is so corrupt.
-Mike Styles
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t-h-e-y are there own worst enemy!!!!!!
Next consider the lack of a response from blacks in the audience. Now granted it all happened pretty quickly but not one black male stood up to shout down Kanye. Ideally someone should have bum rushed the stage, bitch slapped Kanye, and lead him off by his ear. But a white man doing that would have been viewed as an act of racism, so it could only come from a black man. But there was nothing. The best we got was a sheepish statement from the house band’s MC, Wale, who could only muster “Well you can’t blame a man for speaking his mind”. Wow! Could you be anymore impotent! It won’t surprise me in the least if we finally hear from Al Sharpton on this, as he will publicly attack the white record executives for giving Kanye a record deal in the first place. You think that is absurd? Well he’s done it before. continued
To her credit Beyonce showed a lot of class and character by giving her time to Taylor to have her moment. But even this fell a little short of expectations. Why didn’t Beyonce come out and publicly denounce Kanye’s actions as atrocious and unacceptable? Now you have to remember that this is the type of behavior we have come to expect or is considered acceptable from Kanye a well-to-do black person in American society. And until I hear someone from the black community speak up about these issues, I have no reason to believe that it will ever change for the better. I do hope Beyonce is considering a restraining order against Mr. West cause that was a little awkward/inappropriate, in a creepy stalker sort of way.
So you see this has everything to do with race. Finally, before anyone labels me a racist I would hope that you first point out where any of my above statements are false. And then I will hope that before you excoriate me for having my own OPINIONS, that you will first excoriate the negative forces behind black culture for it’s own ACTIONS. I think Kanye West would be an appropriate place to start!
Oh my god, that means I am a white racist in a brown man's body. The horror! The self loathing!
Racists come in every color.
He was seen holding a bottle of Hennessy on the red carpet before the award ceremony. He also has performed at concerts sponsored as Hennessy advertisements. See this link: http://www.bizbash.com/newyork/content/editorial/...
Kanye, like other rappers, depends upon an asinine and anti-social image. He probably lost more fans by apologizing than by hogging the limelight.
Postcard from Diversity Training: Black racism = Acceptable; White racism = Unacceptable.
Postcard from the Real World: Racism = Unacceptable.
When is the spineless MSM going to resume some semblance of integrity and start calling out the real racists? They might start with Robert Byrd.
West is an immature, narcissistic boor. The people who admire immature, narcissistic boors because they think the boors are cool are fools. The contempt such people show for authentic, straightforward normal people is a marker of their own neurotic deficiencies. Still, it is not worth spending much energy having active contempt for Kanye or his supporters – being who they are is the worst punishment you could wish on them.
Kanye who? ……Wow….one of my favorite moments in movie history on tv….MISSION TO MARS….Tim Robbins floating helplessly off into space for eternity……that vacant look in his eyes….just like in real life so not much acting going on but still……drifting drifting drifting……
Ah, you beat me to it.
I KNOW! My friend was posting about it on FB and we were cracking up!
Hey you, he's a frickin' genius! The voice of our generation! And his hair is swirly! He's like, OMG I don't even know. SO AMAZING!
I mean, uh, what did I just say? Ooooops, I think I forgot to charge my brain. BRB.
Stupid crackers—everyone knowd dat Beyonce is da next Michael Jackson and Taylor Swift had it coming—Who buys the crap they sell? Taylor Swift (all though I dont listen to her) Has much more talent than "Beyonce's biggest fan——The man has demonstrated once again that the "homies" cant deal with public exposure , much less fame—–Whats next for Kanye? A prostitute fighting ring?
right on. i might pay to see that.
Doesn't care about white people? Are you kiddin"? He gave Leno a great opening night number, far better than anyone expected. That's got to count for something.
Kanye West is GAY FISH!
he's no talent racist clown to boot…
and Taylor Swift is TALLER than Kanye. hee hee, little "blackman" syndrom…
*Sigh* … Kanye who?
Considering that Toby is 6'4" and Kanye is 5'8", yeah, I'd like to see that, too. Of course, like most thug-bully-wannabes, Kanye is a coward who would run away squealing like a little girl before Toby could so much as spit his Skoal out on him. But to heck with Tiny Toby, the man you really want for this is 6'6" Trace Adkins. And he's been in a few scrapes from what I hear.
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There is never a tranquilizer dart rifle around when you need one.
That should set back Race relations about 150 years – Good Will and all that Rot.
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Actually last night on "Inside the NFL" Warren Sapp said that if Taylor Swift was his daughter he would have been on that stage beating the crap out of West. You could tell that Sapp was really pissed off about the incident because he mentioned it several times and used up his usual closing comments about football to talk about what he would have done to West.
I posted on a blog the other day, to go out and buy Taylor Swift's latest album, and verbally mother f Kanye the whole time to everyone you see, to and from the music store. He can't get enough bad press. Freakin azzclown.
Taylor Swift should have dropped him like a 2 foot putt, and then smoked him like a cheap cigar. But……she's got more tact in one eyelash than that ass-hat has in his entire 5' 3" frame of false bravado.
Kanye West deserved every minute of it.
BTW Kanye West is still and will always be a GAY FISH!!
ya, knob twistering board guys are important to "music" created largely by computers and filters and the like.
When I had to, I ocassionally operated a mixing board and played bass at the same time, live and in rehersal. Pretty much anybody could turn up vocals/guitar solos back then or walk out into the middle of the club and check the balance…it's not rocket science.
He may not care about white people, but as a white secular Jew, and more importantly, as a white MISANTHROPE, I care about him. He gives misanthropes like me hope. Just in case you didn't know, a misanthrope is a person who has ill will towards all humankind. I thought it was pretty entertaining for something that is normally just about stupid music videos or girls kissing each other open-mouthed. It reminds me of the great moments of Academy Award history, like when Marlon Brando sent in an Indian girl to accept his award for the "Godfather" or the naked man running through the Oscar stage or when Adrian Brody kissed Halle Berry on stage. That's why I watch these dumb awards shows: Not to celebrate some accomplishment, but to be entertained and get a larf out of it. And a larf I got.
Kanye West was booked a few weeks before the airdate of Leno's new show, plus the unplanned spontainious outburst is Kanye's M.O. It might have been planned but if more than one person knew that plan the details would have been leaked before the awards show was off the air.
Ms Swift should have planted that ugly award in his greasy forehead.
well, "his future's so bright…he has to wear shades"
Timbuck 3 – Austin, Texas
Seriously, this is what constitutes "deserves to die" these days? Rudeness?
So now Obama's in on the conspiracy? My God, how far the rabbit hole go??
Really? This incident? THIS INCIDENT?
If we progressed from the race riots of the 60's and 70's and the MLK shooting- and we certainly have- I think we'll survive Kanye acting the clown on the MTV Music Awards.
Nothing like blowing a perfectly snarky post with bad proofreading.
For those of you who contend this incident isn’t about race I would respectfully disagree and ask that you consider the following. What Kanye did is all about race. It is precisely how black America tries to intimidate white people (especially women) into letting them behave however they want. He would have never done this to a fellow black artist or even a white male. His blatant disrespect of Ms. Swift plays completely into the women are "bitches and hos' "narrative that dominates black culture today. Anyone remember the Jamie Foxx comments on Mylie Cyrus several months ago telling her she needs to “make a sex tape…. do some heroin… and catch chlamydia on a bicycle seat”. Mylie was 16 at the time and Jamie has a teenage daughter of his own. Nice Jamie, real nice. And do black Americans really need to disparage white teenage girls this way to prove their masculinity? Apparently so, for this is precisely how black men and black culture feels about women. continued
I completely disagree. Kanye West cares a lot about white people. They're the ones who buy his music. I said on my twitter page the other day, Kanye West is proof that you can take a kid from the suburbs, tell him he'll make a lot of money if he acts ghetto and what comes out the other end is a piece of crap.
Do you know what elude means?
Thank you! The only thing more nauseating than the actual event is all the hack writers obsessing over it.
"Bonus points" are just what Obama was looking for.
It is all about race and West is a racist. And it's now cool to be conservative. We are subversive, we are the underdogs and the outsiders, we are the revolution. Libs and lefties are so last century. And West just seems past his sell-by date.
Perhaps a bit off the Kanye West topic, but a more harsh example of Black rascism can be found in the brutal beating of a white kid by two black kids (and kudos to the black young man who finally stiopped it) just because he wanted to sit down on the school bus.
Kanye is just a malfunctioning individual. You can call him whatever you want but his brain just doesn't work properly.
NO conceivable event will set back race relations even 25 years, never mind 150. Certainly not some misbehaving from that little punk. Even I have more faith than that.
t-h-e-i-r
Most blacks are racists, they will never get over the fact that they were once slaves like we all were at one time or another and which we all will be again soon.
Being neither black nor white it's a little hard to relate… but I would like to point out I don't like to see it as "black" and "white"… I would prefer to see "average low-class black person" and "average low-class white person"
Note many univeristy educated white persons are on TV calling other white persons "racists".. this univeristy educated white person can still be called "average low-class white person" but is being paid by government or media to lie and incite emotional angst which is even lower that "average low-class white person".
MTV is not for hip people. MTV is for teenagers.
No, sorry. Not claiming that Obama conspired with Kanye West. Kanye did what he did for publicity, don't think he necessarily conspired with anyone.
But if you think Barrack Obama called someone a "Jack-ass" on a microphone in front of a reporter and he didn't know what he was doing, then you must think he is a fool. I don't.
It could be worse. I'm a hot 25-year-old lesbian chick in a broken down, old white man's body.
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it was more metaphorical than actual. relax.
this clown West would be working in a car wash in a sane world, but good for him, he found a way to fool some of the people most of the time…
"What a great talent!"
West is 5'8"?
"he's just a widdle guy!" to paraphrase the late, great Chris Farley in "Tommy Boy"…
i need some Kanye sun-glasses to complete my ~look~…
Agreed. My point wasn't that he's a racist, it's that if you're not going to make this a racist issue, you can't make the other stuff a racist issue, either. I think that Kanye is a race-baiter, and I believe that HE thinks that everyone else is racist, but my main point is that the media is obsessed with race until it contradicts their narrative.
John Rich (Big and Rich) on Hannity said kanye was lucky there weren't good ol' country boys in the audience.
"There's no such thing as bad publicity."
I have no idea who said that.
In other news, it has been discovered that the Pope is Catholic…
I'm aflicted with that condition as well.
happened to me too.
LOL been doing the same thing myself.
I don't know any of the facts in this matter, but I will say that these hackers acted stupidly.
So West is hip? I guess that is pretty close to the body part that most fits this clown, but I would say that part is ass. He is a total ass. The people who support a fool like this have no self respect or they would tear down this tool for being so classless. One reason I won't let my kids listen to rap or hip hop music. There is nothing in that junk worth listening to and it has no redeeming value. But as my kids say you can't have Crap without rap.
I´m not sure West is a racist. We already knew he´s an idiot. Isn´t the real lesson (again) that our "elites" love to talk about racism, but increasingly the people yawn and move on? Of course racism exists but I´m willing to bet there´s less of it in America than in any other multi-ethnic country.
The only people who obsess about racism 24/7 are doing it for a living in academia, entertainment, education and the media. Oh, and community organizing and certain churches. I hear it pays well.
If I had to have slaves if I was living in 1830, I sure wouldn't want Black slaves.
East Indian slaves had high IQ levels and sold for about the same price.
Wow…here is what I wrote on Monday, 9/14:
"Imagine, just for a moment if Kanye West had won the VMA and say, Toby Keith had jumped up there and did what West did to Taylor Swift. Would that just be Toby ranting (as Kanye's outburst was described as) or Toby being a coarse racist?"
Kanye west is by far one of the best entertainers in the world.he always puts reality back to this fake ''barbie doll'' thing they call life in america..beyonce deserved that award..whu da hell is taylor swift..(my point exactly).it waz my first time seeing her video whn the nominations whr presented. Beyonce's 'single ladies' is stil gracing video charts across the world..kanye west spoke his mind(unfortunately filled with cognac at the time)..hez not racist!!!
All White people are racist you know that. That's why I'm buying a gun…
Thanks Obama !
dude, MTV is not for hip people. MTV is for teeny boppers. on the issue of what hip people like/dislike, you are totally out of your element.
Meant alluded my proof reading friend.
HOVA RIGHT!! KANYE IS THE TRUTH!!!!!!! BEYONCE SHOULD HAVE WON THAT AWARD!!!! FOR REAL THOUGH HE DIDN’T KNOW THE GIRL WAS GOING TO CRY. WHO KNEW THAT SHE KNEW SHE DIDN’T DESERVE THAT AWARD TOO. IT WAS FUNNY UNTIL WE HEARD THAT SHE WAS NOT IN ON IT AND FROZE UP. I’M LYING I’M STILL LOL!!!!! LOL!!!!!!!(laughing out loud) P.S. How can Kanye be a racist when he is dating that white girl(Amber Rose).ROC NATION IN THE BUILDING.
Great minds, I guess… I promise I didn't see your post before I wrote mine!
I wouldn't exactly call Beyonce hip.
Kanye West = 5'8
Taylor Swift = 5'11
Jo247gman and Sne (above) – you both clearly demonstrate the intellect of the average Kanye West fan.
kanye west acted stupidly (to quote obama). I like the part in the article about Toby Kieth, but I'd like to see him do the big brother thing (no, not the show) and Knock the punk out. George Bush has spent more money in Africa than all other presidents combined. obama would'nt even send his aunt over. tee-hee. I'm not offering up Toby as an enforcer but Jay-z could use a little attitude adjustment too! Talkin' all his trash on election night.
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