[Agamemnon]

Originally posted by Calgary Flames+Sep 3 2005, 07:27 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Calgary Flames @ Sep 3 2005, 07:27 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

Selfish? How so? *IF* it was a staged stunt to get notarity, you would he would have prepared something. He spoke from the heart... from the way he said it, I think it was all spur of the moment.

I don't think he was thinking of HIMSELF when he made those comments.

But of course if a black man says that something is racist, I certainly expected him to come under fire from white analysts on TV for saying it.

Selfish because he's bitter with the goverment... That's his right but could he not have made those comments at a more appropriate place than a place to raise money to help these suffering people??

Have some self control and respect for what you're trying to accomplish there... It has nothing to do with him trying to get personal notoriaty (sp?)

The time and place for that comment, wasn't a fund raiser.[/b][/quote]
While I can see what you're saying (focus should be on fundraising, not finger-pointing), I think Kanye's comments (whether true or not) were voiced at the right place, at the right time. People aren't suffering yesterday, they're suffering right now. It's not yesterday that people were lamenting the federal government's poor response; that's happening right now. If this guy perceives that people are dying due to George Bush' and the Federal Government's tardiness, then he _must_ put his thoughts out as big and loud as possible. How is a program devoted to these victims not the perfect platform for this? It wasn't aggrandizement (I believe) for himself, it was to help others.

Now, whether he is actually correct or not in his statement is another matter entirely. If he believes it, then he did the right thing. If he was padding his career (which I doubt, but don't know) then he's a jackass.