Singer <strong>Kanye West</strong>, in a promotional TV appearance with <strong>Mike Meyers</strong> for the NBC telethon to raise money for Katrina victims. <br /><br />[<strong>Kanye</strong> -- not reading from teleprompter, as planned]: <i>"I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they are looting if you see a white family it says they are looking for food. (...) those are my people down there. (...) "We already realize a lot of the people that could help are at war now fighting another way and they've given them permission to go down and shoot us."</i> <br /><br />[<strong>Myers</strong>, visibly uncomfortable, reads from prompter script. Camera cuts back to <strong>Kanye</strong>, who pauses, then says] <br /><br /><i>"<strong>George Bush</strong> doesn't care about black people!"</i> <br /><br />[camera abruptly switches back to a stunned <strong>Myers</strong>, then to actor <strong>Chris Tucker</strong>]
