[Kanye/Joe Wilson]Recent Signs that Race is Still an Issue…
I'm sure we all saw Kanye West's foolish antics at the VMA's last night, and were all repulsed by it. I personally think Kanye was 100% in the wrong for stealing that girls shine, but his assessment wasn't to far off. Then of course Beyonce won video of the year so he looked silly anyway. But I find it unnerving when I go on Twitter after wards, white people are just calling Kanye "Nigger" like we just watched the premiere of Roots. [Click here for more]. While Kanye was wrong, the fact that people resort to calling him a "Nigger" so openly, lets me know racism is alive and breathing in this country.
Racism was also very prevalent in President Obama's health care speech last week when Republican politician Joe Wilson began screaming at the president mid speech. Would this ever happen to a white president? We've never seen such blatant disrespect at a presidential event, until the the man in charge had brown skin.
SMH
September 14th, 2009 - 20:44
Things only change when the majority is affected by them. Racism affects the minorities. So sucks to be a minority.
September 15th, 2009 - 16:45
Nice article… I wonder what we would say if Kanye was white and Taylor Swift was black, would we call Kanye a racist. The senator that shouted during Obama’s speech is deemed a racist by pretty much all minority owned media and I think he did the same thing that Kanye did.