Quotes: Kanye West Empathizes with George W. Bush

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“I definitely can understand the way he feels, to be accused of being a racist in any way, because the same thing happened to me, you know, I got accused of being a racist. For both situations, it was basically a lack of compassion that America saw in that situation.”

— KANYE WEST, responding to President George W. Bush’s admission that West’s allegation that he “doesn’t care about black people” was one of the lowest points of his presidency (via Gawker)