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Katrina and Kanye: One Year Later
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The one-year anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster has brought remembrances, reports, evaluations, even an epic documentary by Spike Lee. But from the far away eyes of those of us in our living rooms, nothing has brought the raw immediacy of the catastrophe into context like Kanya West's uncensored comment -- "George Bush doesn't care about black people" -- and the media remixing that followed.
In the most potent political remix of recent memory, Kanye West's
chart-topper "Gold Diggers" was hijacked by The Legendary K.O, with new
lyrics by Big Mon and Damien a.k.a. Dem Knock-Out
Boyz. After the mp3 file made its way onto the web, videomakers seized
upon the infamous remix to make their own video remixes.
One of the best is this video
from subMediaTV.com's Franklin Lopez. Based in Vancouver, the Puerto
Rican filmmaker has made a number of professionally-made politically
charged viral videos such as "Why I Love Shoplifting from Big Corporations", "Join the Resistance: Fall in Love" as well as "George Bush is Evil,"
a frightening chop job of the President's 2002 State of the Union
address (i.e. "We'll be partners in brutal oppression") and the D.J.
Danger Mouse video Bush Boys.
