Mike Myers On Hurricane Katrina: “Had That Been White People, The Government Would Have Been There Faster”

    Contemplating a return to acting and making press rounds for the upcoming documentary he’s directing, actor Mike Myers recently sat down with GQ and talked about what he’s been up to.

    When it comes to Hip Hop, perhaps Myers’ most famous involvement came during a charity telethon he participated in with Kanye West. West infamously proclaims that former president George W. Bush “Doesn’t care about Black people.” Myers was asked about the incident and said Kanye “spoke a truth.”

    “For me it isn’t about the look of embarrassment on my face, it is truly about the injustice that was happening in New Orleans,” he explained. “I don’t mind answering the question but the emphasis of it being that I’m the guy next to the guy who spoke a truth.”

    Myers also said he doesn’t believe Bush doesn’t care about Black people, but had more White people been in danger of the storm’s destruction, the United States government would have acted faster. 

    “I assume that George Bush does care about Black people—I mean I don’t know him, I’m going to make that assumption,’ he said. “But I can definitively say that it appeared to me watching television that had that been White people, the government would have been there faster.”

    Read the full interview here.

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    56 thoughts on “Mike Myers On Hurricane Katrina: “Had That Been White People, The Government Would Have Been There Faster”

      1. Your comments are corny. Stop using my name if you’re going to type dumb stuff like this. I’m not impressed

    1. this is seriously old saw it like a week ago, and has nothing to do with hip-hop other than he was there when kanye said g.b. hates black people or whateva..

    2. This is Mike Myers using Kanye’s stardom as jumper cables. It took this guy almost a decade to reveal this. SMH.

      1. mike myers is more famous and accomplished than kanye.

        were talkin about austin powers here. waynes world.

      2. Um Mike Myers has been around long before you were born 5 years ago. He is also worth 2-3 times more than Kanye and hasn’t made shit for a long long time.

      3. According to celebrity net worth, Myers is worth around 175 million, while Kanye is 120 millio, so 2-3x more is a bit of a stretch.

        Regardless, Myers doesn’t need anyone else’s ‘stardome’ as a jumper cable. Dude was arguably the most slept on successful entertainer from 97-2007 with the Austin Powers and Shrek franchises raking in money hand over foot.

    3. cool but step your shit up… meanwhile there’s been a new ab-soul track out for 3 days and DX is yet to post it

    4. theirs two dates in aprial one date. then 2 days after first date. 1 year later from first date. crash.

    5. If Lord Jamar said the exact same thing you trolls would be trashing him smh fuck y’all double standards

      1. IF Lord Jamar said something that made sense for a change about an individual being racist rather than making a sweeping statement about all white people then I don’t think people would have a problem with it.

    6. As someone who pays federal taxes, who lives in an area surrounded by other people who pay federal taxes, I 100% expect quicker/better/stronger government response verses the quality of response in an area of people who do not pay federal taxes.

      1. govt will protect the corporations who pay no federal tax and shoot your punk ass on sight trying to get a slice of bread

    7. I guess you didn’t want to plagiarize the article but what you quoted wasn’t the most important part of what he said:

      “What is so funny about peace, love, and understanding? To have the emphasis on the look on my face versus the fact that somebody spoke truth to power at a time when somebody needed to speak? I’m very proud to have been next to him.”

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