Kanye West Sees Eye To Eye With Dubya

Back in September 2005, West went off the script during a live benefit concert for Hurricane Katrina victims to tell viewers that, “George Bush doesn’t care about black people.”

In an interview set to air next week, Bush tells Matt Lauer that West’s remark was the worst moment of his presidency.

That’s right – it wasn’t 9-11 or Iraq or Hurricane Katrina, but a spontaneous quote by a rapper.

Here’s what Bush told Lauer about that “disgusting moment,” according to Entertainment Weekly:

“He called me a racist. And I didn’t appreciate it then. I don’t appreciate it now. It’s one thing to say, ‘I don’t appreciate the way he’s handled his business.’ It’s another thing to say, ‘This man’s a racist.’ I resent it, it’s not true.”

In a passage from Bush’s new book Decision Points, the former president writes that he “didn’t like hearing people claim that I lied about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction or cut taxes to benefit the rich. But the suggestion that I was racist because of the response to Katrina represented an all-time low.”

West called in to Houston radio station KBXX 97.9 The Box today to explain that he knows what Bush went through because the rapper was also accused of being racist after he interrupted Taylor Swift during the 2009 VMAs.

“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, where I got accused of being a racist,” West said, according to a clip posted on RapRadar.com and reported by Entertainment Weekly.

“For both situations, it was basically a lack of compassion that America felt in that situation. With him, it was a lack of compassion of him not rushing, him not taking the time to rush down to New Orleans. For me, it was a lack of compassion of cutting someone off in their moment. But nonetheless, I think we’re all quick to pull a race card in America. And now I’m more open, and the poetic justice that I feel, to have went through the same thing that he went [through] — and now I really more connect with him on just a humanitarian level.”

Who knew that Kanye West and George W. Bush were two peas in a pod?!

Bush’s interview with Lauer airs Nov. 8 on “Matt Lauer Reports” on NBC. Decision Points is set for release the following day.

Click here for the Entertainment Weekly story.

Click here to listen to Kayne’s interview with KBXX 97.9.