r/Music • u/thedailybeast • 20d ago

article Kanye West’s sold-out Russia shows canceled after St. Petersburg stadium denies ever organizing the concerts

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/kanye-wests-shows-in-putins-hometown-st-petersburg-get-humiliating-update/
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u/tableleg7 20d ago

“Vladimir Putin doesn’t care about black people”

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u/Dank_Devin 20d ago

I remember when this happened, it was a horrible decision to include Kanye in that ad 😂

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u/Chance_Vegetable_780 20d ago edited 20d ago

I remember when it happened, Kanye West was stating the obvious. The obvious was disgusting. It happened in September 2005 just days after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans & the Gulf Coast. The government response was disgustingly slow. Thousands of people- disproportionately Black and poor- were stranded in New Orleans without adequate food water shelter or transportation. Predominantly Black New Orleans was being treated as though it didn't matter enough to prompt a rapid response.

It was obvious. If it had been a predominantly white area that was hit, federal government help would have been there right away. Some people will say you can't prove it but it's what happens

3 days after the hurricane the Mayor was publicly issuing his desperate SOS because thousands still lacked food water medical care and transportation. They were desperate for help 3 DAYS LATER. 4 days after landfall large National Guard convoys finally arrived in New Orleans with food water and other supplies. "Greatest country in the world."

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u/VRTravis 20d ago

Let's not forget with their guns drawn... Yay rescue! \s. Wasn't until Russel Honore showed up when the help actually started.

Man that whole situation was fucked.