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Perhaps the most striking evidence of this came on Sunday during CNN’s ‘Late Edition’ when host Wolf Blitzer quoted West when asking Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson whether the response to Hurricane Katrina has been racist. Thompson, a Democrat, said the government had failed and ‘someone has to be held accountable.’ He cited the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Homeland Security.The most revealing part of the exchange, however, was the fact that Thompson mistook the comments from West as a statement from Princeton University professor, theologian, author and activist Dr. Cornel West. In one fell swoop, the rapper and college dropout has earned a place in the front ranks of this country’s best-known and most respected African-American activists.”
I personally think it’s great that Kanye said what he said, but I think it’s more of a class issue than a race issue. And instead of pegging it on one man, I think it has a lot more to do with the system and the establishment perpetuating itself.