Ok so it’s a month after Kanye’s VMA episode and it’s still creeping up in the news. Granted, now it’s more like pictures of Kanye crying and Taylor Swift looking like America’s little angel, but it’s still there. Lately I have been giving this some thought…was what Kanye did really that bad?

Mr. West single-handedly ushered Swift to a whole new level of fame. Without his little speech, she would be another teen star who most of the world had never heard of.

Secondly, why are we so quick to jump on Kanye‘s back? Wasn’t he saying what we were all really thinking? Yes, how he did it was quite rude, but the way it was told to me, you would have thought Kanye ripped the mic out of this girl’s hands and kicked her in the face. When I finally watched the incident on MTV I found myself asking…was that it?

Thirdly, everyone seemed to profit from ‘Ye’s outburst. It definitely raised the profile of the VMA‘s. It also got Ms. Taylor talk show appearances she couldn’t have landed before. And-my favorite-it set up the whole big-bad-black-man-terrorizing-white-America scene, which, paired with labeling of our “Black President”, leaves me surprised that Marshall Law hasn’t been declared yet.

Frankly, in this day and age, if you are an entertainer and you can’t take a little heat from a 5’8 rapper who wears skinny jeans and teddy bear backpacks, you need to find another profession. I’m tired of hearing about how Kanye was so horrible, mainly because I can name several Hollywood events that are much worse, like Norbit, which was an insult to all our senses. So America can we stop making this about how ‘Ye is such a bad dude and more about what it should be… how MTV picks who “the best” video award goes to anyway?