Kayne West and the Internet

After watching the video on Kayne West’s speech about Hurricane Katrina, I can tell Kayne West is frustrated on the reaction that George Bush had through looking at his facial expression. Connecting to our earlier class discussion, I feel like West really wants to express himself. As a public figure, he is supposed to follow the script; however, at the end of the speech, he blurred out the sentence, “Bush doesn't care about black people”. After this speech, controversies and critics spread over the internet. Along the same line, the article, “Life on the wire: deconstructing race on the internet”, by Andre Brock revealed the race problem in the internet. Once this speech spread across the media, critics and comments immediately hit the public whether commenting about Kayne West as being racism or Bush is being racism. In terms of utilizing the internet, Kayne West once again made another impressive impression to the mass media in regards to his comments on Hurricane Katrina. The internet served as a public space where everyone is able to make comments on. Even though some of the comments may consider being racist, there is no doubt to debate whether it is appropriate or not. While thinking about this concept, I recalled to the class discussion question that was proposed from Brock’s article is identifying the internet as colorblind or not. Personally, I think it is definitely not colorblind in the internet space because we can probably tell what type of the person is by reading the comments. After reading both articles, I was wondering if Kayne West thought about the consequence of saying that sentence out publicly in the interview as being a well-known public figure and knowing that the interview will be on the internet.