Kanye’s Katrina, George Bush Criticism Hits Differently 21 Years Later
A live television fundraiser for Hurricane Katrina became one of the defining political moments of Kanye West ’s career when he abandoned NBC’s prepared remarks and said what the network clearly was not expecting to hear. Standing beside Mike Myers during A Concert for Hurricane Relief on September 2, 2005, Kanye criticized the way Black survivors were being portrayed in news coverage and questioned how race and poverty were shaping the response to the catastrophe. Then came the seven words that would follow him for years: “ George Bush doesn’t care about Black people.” The remark aired live on the East Coast.
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