Kanye's Acts of Egoism vs. Altruism

What happens when a person fails to consider the accomplishments, feelings, and acts of thier fellow wo.man? Well you get an ooops moment like that of Kanye West at the MTV awards in his ranting tirade of his own personal opinions about another's artistry. Yes Ye we know that you got into architecture and design a couple years back after staying in Milan and Tokyo and seeing the differences in thier design and culture. We all know how much of a hip-hop fashionist leader he is. However, when he became a top video director IDK. I say this because he just took Taylor Swift's emotions and trampled them like a trail of ants en route to bringing a scarce piece of bread back to the anthill. His tirade of words were just like a bored child running thier foot along the trail of ants. The poor girl stood there as if someone had just named her prom queen and the king came along and told her she was too ugly to stand by his side so he was going to call his first choice on stage. It was like a high school moment gone bad. Well I would call myself one of Kanye's biggest fan because I have been a Ye follower since he was underground mainly doing songs with Consequence, Talib, little brother and other undergrund artists that don't get much mainstream light, but his opinion this time was out of line at that moment. After my initial shock and reaction I was able to empathize with called by many tackless and tasteless and i have to agree. In the words of Frank Lucas care of Denzel Washington, "the loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room." Weak from grief, weak from misunderstandings, weak from being great, or weak from carrying around an inflated ego we will never know. Only the confines of Kanyes mind will be able to tell that story.
It looks as if many are interested in crucifying him right now. He didn't learn from the Bush moment? Taking attention from those victims of Katrina to say what we as the world had already come to understand, but we thought he learned there was a time and a place for everything. Well I for one am always willing to look at the bigger picture. When people dwell in the city of hurt and pain many things are liable to come out of thier mouth and while our minds are moving too fast to press pause on our mouths we look back and wish we had a fairy God mother that would have just taken the remote of life out of our hands and pressed pause rewind and put a teleprompter in our tunnel vision with just the right words. Kanye's act of altruism on the Jay Leno show when his humility seemed to overtake him as the emotion of thinking "what would mom think" almost sent him spiraling into breakdown mode. He pulled it together well, and explained that sometimes pain causes reactions we are not able to understand. I understand. I have had a couple of Kanye moments over the past year hurting people that actually love and care for me because of irrational words coming from a place of hurt, and wishin/ praying there was a rewind button of life that would allow me the opportunity to do it all over again, just a little bit differently. Maybe, just maybe, Kanye has learned his lesson this time. Maybe, just maybe, he will decide now is the time to grow up and consider the feelings of others. Maybe, just maybe, he has realized this is not his universe he's just one a lone star in a series of star clouds and he alone is not going to make that cloud shine, but it is a group effort. Maybe, just maybe, now he'll take the time to commit to the difficult task of grieving for his mother. Grieving, I know first hand, is difficult because it makes pain, what humans tend to run from, a reality. There is, in a sense, a losing of a piece of ones self in saying goodbye to the one person who loved you more than anything else in this world. Nothing can compare to losing a parent but especially one whom you shared a body, life and a cord that inevitably never seems to be broken figuratively, although is literally cut the moment you begin gasping your own air. But, anyway, I digress. Kanye was wrong. That was that. But if we as a society can communicate our distress over Kanye being human and further assasinate his character, why can't we forgive him for the same imperfection?