Kanye West has spoken out after George W Bush labelled a comment by the rapper as the worst moment of his presidency.
When the walls burst around New Orleans, the city was turned into a disaster area. In the world’s richest country, aid struggled to get through with many of the area’s poorest residents unable to escape.
The situation became desperate, with emotions heightening across the world. Appearing at a televised charity appeal, Kanye West turned away from the screen to say that President George W Bush didn’t “care about Black people”.
A notorious meeting of pop and politics, George W Bush recently told an interviewer that the comment was the worst moment of his Presidency. Calling in to the Houston radio station 97.9 The Box yesterday morning, Kanye West explained that he and Bush are not so different after all.
“Well I definitely can understand the way he feels – to be accused of being a racist in any way” said the rapper. “Because the same thing happened to me, you know, where I got accused of being racist. And with both situations, it was basically a lack of compassion that America saw in that situation.”
Continuing, Kanye West refined his thoughts over what actually happened in New Orleans. “With him it was a lack of compassion, with him not rushing – you know, him taking the time time to rush down to New Orleans. With me, it was a lack of compassion of cutting someone off in their moment.”
“But nonetheless I think we’re all quick to pull the 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 went, and now I really more connect with him on a humanitarian level… because the next morning, when he felt that, I felt the same thing.”
Kanye West is due to release his new album ‘My Dark Twisted Fantasy’ later this month.
