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[handheldbooty]

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Audio: Nola Mayor speaks out on ineffective bullshit and press conferences.I think what he had to say is way

Comments

[gj435]

Am I the only on that doesn't think that Kanye pulled a publicity stunt? Do you think that he wouldn't have done it if he didn't have a new album out? I just think that it wasn't the right time or place for him to say that.

[handheldbooty]

i as well think it wasnt the right time to say it. i also dont see the point of what he said. I dont believe our president is fond of black people either, AND? what does that get people to do, but talk about it in their LJ, as if Kanye is a hero of some sort.

He could have told us "that" like before, or wayyy after the hurricane.

What was the intention of his comment? I still don't understand. You tell me. I'll take my Kanye comment back.

[handheldbooty]

ooo and he probably would have still done it if his album wasnt out, he knows people are going to buy it anyway.

[gj435]

I was trying to figure that out myself. Honestly, I think he was just venting and not caring about that fact that he should be supporting a live telethon. People view him as a hero cause he dared to say it. I gave him props for doing him. I mean, he didn't want to read from a stupid teleprompter. He chose to speak from his own perspective rather than a sounding like a puppet. Unfortunately, he went a little over board. He's still the man though.

[ayoria]

kanye was all types of way wrong. it was not the correct place to say that shit.

even if it were a race thing..none of us should be worried about it..we should be worrying for the PEOPLE just liek you said. fuck color. we're all human.

[handheldbooty]

AMEN, thats what I'm saying, lets talk about the race issues afterwards or whatever

[creativepwr]

I will make sure to listen to this once I get to my own personal comp and off work

[handheldbooty]

please do =)

[anonymous]

I'm glad that I'm not the only one who didn't think Kanye's comment was cute. It was so.....random. But then again I didn't actually see it myself until last night on Jimmy Kimmel.

As for the looting, I took it as though alot were acting upon survival and acute suppression. I saw the blinds removed as a light shined, exposing the true realm of American poverty in the raw. As young people scurried away from stores with boxes of Air Jordans -which perhaps some not so far removed vietnamese children helped produce for 60cents/hr. in a sweatshop-- the ideology of materialism that the likes of Kanye West and others glorify on the regular seemed attainable to these juveniles during those mere moments of trajedy and dispair. (sorry I got carried away :D)

[handheldbooty]

to me it shows that "we" are all for the wrong things in life. I would have been grabbing as much food and water as possible. their minds were set upon the shoes they never had, or ever thought they could have. I think its a shame.=\

[jolibebe]

Sorry I posted accidently posted under anonymous....