The "shagadelic" star says he was "super proud" to have been by West's side at that moment

IAN BLAIR | WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 2014 | Salon

Nine years after Kanye West boldly declared, “George Bush doesn’t care about black people,” on a telethon raising money for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, the man who literally stood by his side agrees with West’s take.

In an interview for the June issue of GQ, Mike Myers says he was “super proud” to have been next to West at that moment:

For me it isn’t about the look of embarrassment on my face, it is truly about the injustice that was happening in New Orleans. I don’t mind answering the question but the emphasis of it being that I’m the guy next to the guy who spoke a truth. I assume that George Bush does care about black people—I mean I don’t know him, I’m going to make that assumption—but I can definitively say that it appeared to me watching television that had that been white people, the government would have been there faster. And so to me that’s really the point—the look on my face is, to me, almost insulting to the true essence of what went down in New Orleans.

At the time, Myers admits, he wasn’t entirely familiar with West’s work. But West gave him a bit of a warning of what might be said. That he might “take liberties” with what was going on.

“I didn’t know that the liberty would be calling out the president,” Myers said.