Katrina was a horrific display of how much damage cronyism, incompetence and complacency can do -- especially if you're poor and Black -- and Kanye just said what many people were feeling in the wake of that disaster.
And then the fact that Bush had the unmitigated gall to say that this was the worst moment of his presidency considering all the nightmarish events that took place under his watch kinda proved the point Kanye was making in the first place.
I remember this like it was yesterday. I saw the effects of Katrina lots of them moved to my school and I was friends with many I wonder where they are now.