West replied Wednesday with a seemingly newfound sense of empathy for the former president, telling radio host Devi Dev of 97.9 The Box, "I definitely can understand the way he feels to be accused of being a racist in any way, because … the same thing happened to me. I got accused of being a racist, and … with both situations it was a lack of, basically a lack of compassion that America saw in that situation. You know with him, it was a lack of compassion with him not … taking the time to rush down to New Orleans; With me it was a lack of compassion of cutting someone off in their moment. But nonetheless, you know I think we're all quick to pull, like a race card, in America. And now I'm more open and the poetic justice that I feel to have went through the same thing that he went through, and I really more connect with him on just a humanitarian level because that next morning, the next morning when he felt that, I felt that same thing too. I became a better person. I needed that time off, because a lot of times when people become celebrities, you don't have to do your own dishes anymore, and you don't have that responsibility anymore, [and] a lot of times you lose a level of humanity. It's a growing process, I feel like a brand-new artist. I feel like respect is something that's hard to earn but easy to lose, and I feel like I'm on that path to getting all that back right now."
Kanye appears to have really matured. That's what almost losing everything can do to you.
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