Rapper Sympathizes With the Former President
6:00AM ET November 4th, 2010
Contributor : Hip Hop Blog Staff
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After learning that former President George W. Bush was still hurt and angry over West's infamous 2005 remark that Bush didn't 'care about black people,' Kanye West took the high road and sympathized with the 43rd President's frustrations at being called racist. West claims that his own experiences with the backlash following the 2009 Taylor Swift fiasco helped him relate to what the prez felt about such allegations.

"Well I can definitely understand the way he feels to be accused of being a racist in any way because the same thing happened to me [with Taylor Swift], you know, where I got accused of being racist,' West told XXL. "And with both situations it was basically a lack of compassion that America saw."

"With him it was a lack of compassion not rushing, you know, taking his time to rush down to New Orleans," the rapper explained. "With me, it was a lack of compassion in cutting someone off in their moment, but none the less I feel we're all quick to pull the race card [in America]. And now I'm more open, and the poetic justice that I feel to go through the same thing that he went [through], and now I really more connect with him on a humanitarian level ... the next morning when he felt that, I felt the same thing."