Video from current.com featuring Bryan Safi.Following from Slate by By Jonah Weiner In August, 2005, three weeks before his nationally televised declaration that “George Bush doesn’t care about black people,” Kanye West made a statement he’d later describe as braver and more difficult than his attack on the White House. Hip-hop, he told MTV, was supposed to be about “speaking your mind and about breaking down barriers, but everyone in hip-hop discriminates against gay people … I wanna just come on TV and just tell my rappers, tell my friends, ‘Yo, stop it.’ ” Taking on Bush was a perfectly hip-hop move, but taking on homophobia, West feared, could be career suicide.
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Wow this is kinda of a big deal..........even though it should be a given.....and even though his whole thing during Taylor Swifts speech made me very angry, maybe this guy isn't all bad............he could definitely check himself and his male dominance issues but I give him some props for speaking out against a disgusting practice. Baby steps I guess.
