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I think it's inappropriate for a celebrity to use a charity event as a grandstand from which to broadcast political speech. Not that they can't have political opinions or even be vocal about them, but doing so at a charity event it takes away from the point of the thing, the charity. It makes everyone uncomfortable--look at Mike Myers, for God's sake. Worst of all, it makes potential donors uncomfortable. I mean, why did Kanye even agree to be on the thing? Was it to support the charity? So, why stab them in the back like that?
That said, it looks an awful lot like the bungled aftermath of Katrina was at least in part the result of racisim both on the institutional and the personal level. We were in there real quick working for the affluent white victims of 9/11, weren't we?
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