Although it would be difficult for anyone to forget Hurricane Katrina, former President George W. Bush says there is one particular moment surrounding that 2005 event that still stings to this day.

In an interview to air next week on NBC, Bush calls the time Kanye West suggested he was a racist (see the video above) one of the lowest points of his presidency.

"It's one thing to say, 'I don't appreciate the way he's handled his business.' It's another thing to say, 'This man's a racist.' I resent it, it's not true, and it was one of the most disgusting moments in my presidency," he recalls to Matt Lauer.

Having endured his own public scandal since that time, a mellower Kanye expressed sympathy today in an interview with a Houston radio station. (You can listen to that chat after the jump.)

“Well 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. ... With both situations, it was basically a lack of compassion that America saw. ... Nonetheless, I think we’re all quick to pull a race card in America. And now I’m more open, and the poetic justice that I went through the same thing that he went through ... and now I really more connect with him on a humanitarian level, because that next morning, when he felt that, I felt that same thing too."

NBC's entire interview with George W. Bush will air Monday, November 8 @ 8 p.m. Bush's new book, Decision Points, will then hit stores on November 9.