During the Concert for Hurricane Relief, Kanye West and Mike Meyers were celebrity narrators during the segment, West said: (rush transcript)
…I hate the way they are portrayed in the media. Black families it says they are looting, white families it says the are looking for food…They’ve given them permission to go down there and shoot us"
“George Bush doesn’t care about black people.”
Mike Meyers was floored…
this might be the funniest fuckin s hit i have ever seen
Damn right they are going to to shoot their ass. Its the fuckin morons firing guns at the choppers trying to rescue people…Those assholes should be taken out
Until Kanye goes down there and walks around, he needs to shut his stupid ass up.
Took this off a Corvette forum:
From the Corvette forum. Pissed me off reading it. Looters should be
> > shot.
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> >
> > Drove into HELL (New Orleans) last night… Sensitive types stay out
> >
> > Mods can you allow this to stay and not be absorbed into the Hurricane
> > thread please.
> >
> > First off I wanted to post what REALLY is going on in this city. Please
> > don’t get this thread locked people. The news stations are only showing a
> > minuscule of reality. This post may offend some people but I will post
> > what I saw, like it or not it is REALITY.
> > .
> >
> > Well last night I was watching the 6pm news when they announced the 17th
> > street canal pumps failed as well as another break in the levee. My house
> > is right off St. Charles Ave. and up to 6pm yesterday is was the only part
> > of the city that was dry. Since the pumps failed and the new break St.
> > Charles Ave. would be under 9ft of water in the next 12-15hrs. My brother
> > and I felt if we wanted to save anything we had to leave NOW. We loaded up
> > flashlights, rope, our medical ID’s, both our .45 Glocks, 2 shotguns and
> > rode out. En-route we listened to the radio which broad casted all the
> > news about the looters and what not, in hindsight it was a mistake. My
> > mother didn’t want us to go by dad who is a Vietnam vet told to be safe
> > and “shoot to kill” if it ever comes to that.
> >
> > One the way we had to pass 5-6 checkpoints to allow entry into the city.
> > We stated we were medical personnel who were activated, showed our ID and
> > off we went. On the radio reports were coming in about the officer who was
> > shot in the head, the 2 gunman who opened fired on the NOPD station, and
> > how looters were carjacking cars to get out of the city. This started
> > making my brother nervous and giving seconds thoughts.
> >
> > Anyway we get to the city and it looks like a freaking war zone. The best
> > visual I can give is the movie “Blackhawk Down” when all the Somalians are
> > rushing the city. They are people EVERYWHERE, they are pissed off, and all
> > have weapons, 2X4’s, Axes, and guns. If this wasn’t bad enough we are 2
> > white boys in a truck in a sea several hundred armed pissed off blacks.
> > There wasn’t a white person to be found. I couldn’t get over the little
> > 8-10yr old kids with weapons, I ever saw one carry a claw hammer!
> >
> > These people were absolutely nuts rammed trucks(stolen I’m sure) in to
> > jewelry stores stealing items, they were tearing apart Wal-Mart carrying
> > out TV’s, Playstations, DVD players, etc. One lady was wheeling out an
> > entire rack of merchandise, not sure what it was but sure wasn’t clothes
> > for food. They were all laughing and carrying on like it’s freaking
> > Christmas.
> >
> > We got stuck in traffic when we see the group of guys walking down the
> > street w/ AK-47’s, at that point the “pucker factor” kicked in, a couple
> > Glocks and shotguns were no match for that. We haul azz trying to get to
> > Uptown when we see these people chopping down the front door w/ an axe of
> > this $4-5 million dollar mansion on ST. Charles Ave. I was just in total
> > awe because it was so surreal. Making matters worse it’s 11pm at night
> > there is no electricity and you really can see anything or anyone until
> > they are right up on you.
> >
> > Our plan was to be in and out in 30min, this included putting his Harley
> > on the trailer. It would have taken me 5-10min tops to get my stuff, all I
> > wanted was my pictures from college, my clothes/shoes, and my computer
> > tower. Well he got scared saying we are going to get jumped while putting
> > the bike on the trailer. Keep in mind this is the only area in the city
> > that is dry. So just like rats who move to higher ground these people were
> > doing the same. Word must have gotten out that Uptown was dry so there
> > started to be a large influx of people.
> >
> > Needless to say he wanted to go home rather than take our chances. While
> > it was the smart thing to do I was beyond infuriated w/ him because we
> > made it this far. He just kept saying our lives aren’t worth it. So we
> > turned around, our next challenge was getting out of the city while not
> > getting jacked. Reports came out that people were jumping in the back of
> > truck holding the drivers at gunpoint. Traffic started to slow so I just
> > nailed it got out as fast as I could.
> >
> > Even though he was the voice of reason I’m still pissed. All I have is my
> > life and the clothes on my back. I lost my house(which is now 9ft
> > underwater) ALL my clothes, TV, computer, furniture, and photo albums and
> > videos from childhood and college. What makes this worse is my brother
> > owned the house and I was a tenant and I didn’t have renters insurance,
> > hindsight is 20/20.
> >
> > I also hope everyone of the F*(king looters get Tetanus, E-Coli and
> > F*(KING drown. I’m serious I really hope the all die for what they were
> > doing to the city, killing people, and destroying homes. Never in my life
> > have I ever seen people act live savages, it was truly sicking
i haven’t chimed in on this…cause didn’t want to be bothered or labeled the angry black guy" like a lot of you think i am
all i’m saying is if a disaster like this happend in beverly hills people wouldn’t have been left on their roofs & trapped in their attics but for 5+ days.
