“[Kanye's] a hero ‘cause he said something that we’re too scared to say,’” Rhymefest said of West's words, which echoed around the world.
During a live telethon for hurricane relief on MSNBC, West and Mike Myers were set to speak for 90 seconds about the disaster. After Myers made his comments, West ignored the script on the TelePrompTer and instead looked into the cameras and stated: "I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family, it says they're looting. If you see a white family, they're looking for food."
Then he added, “George Bush doesn’t care about black people,” and was immediately cut off.
In response to the controversy that has surrounded the channel's decision to censor West, Rhymefest noted: “Black people, man, we – I’m starting to think that we are some of the softest people on the planet. We’ll stand up to each other but we won’t stand up to the people who don’t really like us. And then when we stand up to the people that don’t like us, everybody else is like 'ooooh. Look what he did.' Instead of looking at George Bush like, ‘why won’t Satan help us?’ Of course Satan don’t like you. Where’s the surprise," he asks.
"Why didn’t we help ourselves? Why didn’t we prepare? Why didn’t we have water and canned food to take care of ourselves or a plan in a time of crisis? This is on us.”
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