Hurricane Whitey

Kanye West at the NBC Concert for Hurricane Katrina Relief:

"I hate the way they portray us in the media."

"If you see a black family it says they are looting if you see a white family it says they are looking for food."

"And you know that it’s been 5 days because most of the people are black and even for me to complain … I would be a hypocrite because I would turn away from the TV because it’s too hard to watch."

" I’ve even been shopping before giving a donation and so right now I’m calling my business manager what is the biggest amount I can give."

"And just to imagine if I was down there, those are my people down there. So anybody out there who wants to help with the set up, the way that America is set up to help … The poor, the black people, the less well off as slow as possible. I mean, Red Cross is doing everything they can."

"We already realize a lot of the people that could help are at war now fighting another way and they’ve given them permission to go down and shoot us."

"George Bush doesn’t care about black people."

You go, boy.

That's right, rapper Kanye West is stepping up to talk about an ugly truth in this country. Not only is the whole system of distribution of goods and services set up to serve white people first, but now, just when it looks like they are in the worst trouble they've ever been in, the government opens hunting season on blacks in New Orleans.

I understand what he's on about, here, because I have often felt guilty when I was forced to go to the front of the line at restaurants, banks, and government offices just because I was white.

I think he might be off base, though, saying that the national guard troops who are restoring order have permission to shoot blacks. I think that it might be more accurate to say that they have orders to shoot anybody who they find in violation of Martial Law, that is, looting, raping or pillaging in the absence of civil authority. That includes us crackers, who are, incidentally, better targets after sunset due to our coloration.

That being said, I think it is awfully brave of him to bust out in support of people who are firing on rescue personnel, looting record stores full of his CDs, and robbing, raping and killing each other even in the storm shelters which have taken them in.

To come down on the side of a group who have begun looting in cities where they've been taken by relief organizations? To allege that the government's inability to prevent hunger, disease and death in an area the size of Kansas with no electricity, limited access by road and air, and the most troubled areas are under four feet of filthy sewer water is a conspiracy by the white man? Hey, that takes monster sized nuts, my brotha.

In a more merciful world, Kanye would have been elected, though I don't even remember him in the primaries.

With such a brave and insightful president, we could have expected a full evacuation of New Orleans in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina's landfall. I'm sure everybody would have cheerfully abandoned some of the most expensive acreage in the southeastern US if President Kanye said so.

I say we should give him a chance. Vote him in, even if he doesn't want it. Only Kanye can rally all the support it will take to finally end the hunting of blacks who are only looking for food.

With his kind of concern, we can be sure that white families will also be labelled as looters.

If something big goes down, we know that he'll call his business manager right after he goes shopping, and that he'll move the military in quickly to help the poor, blacks and the less fortunate first, and shoot white people later.

Oh, and hey-- the Drug War? It'll be over, day one of the West Administration.
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Yeah, I can't wait. Maybe then we'll have an end to all this whining about slavery and being downtrodden, we'll all be able to afford barbecued ribs and malt liquor again, and I can finally get those twenty-twos I've had my eye on.

Oh, not pay for them, Heck no! I'll just wait for a tornado, or a power outage. Happens all the time.