• Kanye West… Heartless? (Part I)

    Posted on September 14th, 2009, 9:55 pm by Muchtabulus

    So Kanye made a spectacle of himself, again, last night at the VMAs. He interrupted Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech. I found out after reading at least 30 Facebook statuses expressing hate and rage toward Kanye West. I went and watched the clip to see what created such a response. It was pretty rude and a classless thing to do, but… really? Is this really worthy of all national news, the top twitter topic, and the focus of anger of many of my friends? Yesterday approximately 29,000 children died due to preventable diseases. I have yet to see that stat ever presented on national news. Joseph Kony and the LRA continue to displace tens of thousands weekly from their homes, turn children into killers, and murder and pillage as they see fit. Kony has never led twitter topics, and sad to say have not seen any anger of my friends regarding him represented on Facebook. There are so many more things going on in the world worthy of our anger and attention. What is the deal with our society? What does it say about us that this kind of thing gets so much attention?

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    2 responses to “Kanye West… Heartless? (Part I)”

    • September 15th, 2009 at 20:15

      I agree completely but I wouldn’t say that everyone who commented would put this as an issue above the ones you brought up. Do we do enough to bring issues like poverty and child displacement to the forefront, absolutely not. and its something we should all be ashamed of. It’s a sad fact of our society that we would rather hear about some idiot musician and talk endlessly about it because we don’t want to think about “that” stuff in our safe, comfy life. For me personally as one who enjoys the creation of music, what Kanye did makes me not want to spend my money on his music, thats all I wanted to express. But it’s sad to see some people take such a deep, hateful, personal, response to something or someone so unworthy of our time.

    • September 16th, 2009 at 09:26

      I thought the whole thing was great.
      It really inspired me to steal the limelight from others.
      A noble cause.


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