Jay-Z Backs Kanye West's Bush Comments « Thread Started on Sept 7, 2005, 8:43am » --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Jay-Z Backs Kanye West's Bush Comments by Scott Colothan on 9/7/2005 http://www.gigwise.com/news.asp?contentid=8384Jay-Z has given his backing to Kanye West’s comments slamming President Bush during a telethon last Friday (September 2). As previously reported on Gigwise, West condemned Bush’s handling of the Hurricane Katrina disaster and said “George Bush doesn’t care about black people.”Now Jay-Z has given the ‘Late Registration’ star his support saying: “I’m backing Kanye 100%. This is America. You should be able to say what you want to say. We have freedom of speech.”In the interview with billboard, Jay-Z went on to mirror West’s views about the slow response to the disaster, saying: "It's really numbing. You can't believe it's happening in America. You wonder, what's going on? Why were people so slow to react? I don't understand it."