Kanye West: Idiot, Racist, or perhaps both?

I am sure that most of you have seen the video of last week at MTV’s Video Music Awards show,where rapper/song artist Kanye West interrupted Country Singer Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech for best video by grabbing the microphone from her hand an announcing to the crowd that singer Beyonce actually had the best video!

What you probably didn’t see or hear was West’s outburst back stage when Taylor Swift was announced as the winner. (See video below.)



Sure, he was roundly criticized in the media, but we’re in an age when hidden motivations are attributed to every interracial interaction, so it’s interesting that few dared to discuss a racial angle to the Kanye West/Taylor Swift confrontation.

Now this is the same Kanye West who back in 2006 was being interviewed by Mike Meyers for a Katrina benefit stated that the National Guard troops assisting the hurricane victims “were given permission to shoot the people”, and that “George Bush doesn’t care about black people.” (see video below)




OK, I've set the stage so now I am going to ask you all to imagine for a momenet that this incident took place with the racial roles reversed....

It’s the Country Music Awards. A black female performer is accepting her first-ever award. She’s happy and a bit surprised; her style of music doesn’t usually win Country Music Awards. Halfway through her emotional acceptance speech, a white male country music singer who had previously stated that President Obama doesn’t care about white people gets drunk, start screaming give a white a chance and then runs up on stage, grabs the microphone from her, and announces that another woman should have won, a white woman–a “real” country singer–instead of the underdog black woman.

Do you think the mainstream media would have reported the story differently?

I sure as hell do!

The New York Times and Maureen Dowd would have been screaming about all the red neck, NASCAR loving, gun toting, bible hugging, racist hillbilly's at the awards and that this racist outburst was indicative of the nation's conservative racist views towards their new black President and his policies.

Don't get me wrong, I am not saying that Kanye West is a racist, although he is an idiot, but my point is that the liberal left and their accomplices in the mainsteam media as well as our former Presidient Jimmy Carter, will abandon rational discourse and resort to the playing race card when it furthers their own political agendas.

Peter J. Mahon