Did James Rucker & Van Jones Apologize To Bush?
[Guest post by Lee Stranahan]
Remember when Kayne West said ‘George Bush doesn’t care about black people?”
Of course you do. And you probably also remember that he apologized a few months back.
West says he spoke out-of-turn during an emotional moment and regrets his choice of words. “I would tell George Bush, in my moment of frustration, I didn’t have the grounds to call him a racist,” he said. “But I believe that, in a situation of high emotion like that, we as human beings don’t always choose the right words.”
In his full interview with Lauer, Bush said he “appreciates” the rapper’s apology and forgives him. He does, however, reiterate that West’s comments troubled him, especially because “nobody wants to be called a racist if, in your heart, you believe in equality of race.”
Well, what I didn’t know is that the Color of Change’s James Rucker and Van Jones made a BIG deal out of Kayne’s original statement.
This is the email sent out at the time…
Our friends Van Jones (Ella Baker Center) + James Rucker (Moveon.org)
have teamed up to create a brilliant new campaign:
KANYE WAS RIGHT
Hell yeah he was right.
http://www.KanyeWasRight.org
Go check out the website, sign up and forward it everywhere!
Buy the T-Shirt + Rep it everywhere.
Now, this happened before Color of Change was founded. Did Rucker and Jones apologize?
Oh – and for fun – click the link to see where KayneWasRight.org aims to now!
– Lee Stranahan
Honestly, I don’t know why I was surprised…
I was assuming it went to a Beyonce video…
Scott Jacobs (d027b8) — 4/10/2011 @ 6:54 pm“Did James Rucker & Van Jones Apologize To Bush?”
This is a trick question, right?
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 4/10/2011 @ 6:57 pmJimmy Rucker is kind of a dick. No?
JD (3dfbdf) — 4/10/2011 @ 7:06 pmHaters gotta h8.
elissa (93f15e) — 4/10/2011 @ 7:10 pmElissa, they take the elehater all the way down. And drink hateraide as they do.
Simon Jester (a10b76) — 4/10/2011 @ 8:44 pmDoes it strike any one else that the root of all problems seem to be the Koch brothers and Fox News?
Because when you really think about it, not that many people watch Fox News and fewer know who the Koch’s are.
How do you replace the opiate of the masses with bogeys that no one knows? The only answer is a complete bankruptcy of new ideas.
Times are hard. A lot of people are out of work, but this constant refrain of disaster pales in comparison to real suffering.
Watching well-fed people complaining about their suffering is ridiculous on it’s face.
Solving the problem of assuring that fat lefties don’t miss a meal is a serious.
Ag80 (df9a8e) — 4/10/2011 @ 8:47 pm==all problems seem to be the Koch brothers and Fox News?==
Halliburton is sooo yesterday.
elissa (93f15e) — 4/10/2011 @ 8:53 pmBarak Obama doesn’t care about white people.
Arizona Bob (911aa5) — 4/10/2011 @ 10:28 pmBush not supporting federal funding for embryonic stem cell research caused black people to die in New Orleans……..Obama not doing a thing to support embryonic stem cells is good for america.
/Lefty Aliberal logic.
DohBiden (984d23) — 4/10/2011 @ 10:46 pmOne of the photos has a “Free the Jena 6” sign. (sigh)
carlitos (00428f) — 4/11/2011 @ 6:54 amThey are still beating that dead horse dude they beat a white guy almost to death…………but hey according to chuckles and the left his friends hung a noose and so he deserved to have his face beat in because he was friends with them.
DohBiden (984d23) — 4/11/2011 @ 6:58 amChuckles meaning Charles Johnson.
DohBiden (984d23) — 4/11/2011 @ 7:08 amWhat happened to Scaife that the libs needed the Koch brothers to replace him as the boogeyman of the right?
Loren (998d8f) — 4/11/2011 @ 7:14 amHe went Berlusconi, had a nasty divorce, his wife got most of the fortune,
narciso (8a8b93) — 4/11/2011 @ 7:25 amlee
made very minor correction to this post. if you add or change anything in it, make sure you are looking at latest version.
Aaron Worthing (e7d72e) — 4/11/2011 @ 8:13 amIslam is not a race lefties.
DohBiden (984d23) — 4/11/2011 @ 8:16 am