They don't mind throwin' a brickSo let me get this straight. KRS One gets quoted out of context and the tabloids organize an auto da fe. Meanwhile, Cam'ron releases an alcoholic beverage called Sizzurp and Page Six doesn't bat an eyelash. Question: Is Cam'ron a member of the Fifth Column? Can we count on Eminem to introduce a Roofies liqueur? (If there were only some way to glamorize inhalants to today's midwestern farm youths....Marketing, get on that.) Marginally related, on the train this morning I saw a woman with a pink and green totebag. I initially admired it, because I liked the color combination, but then I noticed the design on the side: It was a screenprint of a 50s-style image of a trailer and it said underneath it something glib like "Your New Life Begins at Mountain View Trailer Park!" There was some glitter and rhinestones involved. This woman, roughly my age, was wearing an Ann Taylor-style twinset and a black skirt. Her hair was highlighted. I think it's fair to assume that she did not live in Mountain View Trailer Park, nor was she an agent thereof. As a matter of fact, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that Mountain View Trailer Park is apocryphal. So where the fuck does this aspiring Stepford Wife get off with that la-di-da-"Aren't-poor-people-cute?" accessory? How about a bag emblazoned with Cabrini Green on the side? Or the Lutsk Shtetl? Isn't that charming! HA HA HA. I can't wait to get out of here. One week and counting. Posted by Dana at 01:36 PM
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Little Man with a Gun in His Handjust like the kid from ohio i saw last night with an "i heart ghetto" tshirt. putz.
Posted by: txp at October 22, 2004 05:33 PMWell, the tone of that Knight-Ridder article you linked to is unquestionably moronic. And I didn't read the Daily News article that KRS-ONE is responding to. But I happened to be there, at the "Political Rockers" discussion at the New Yorker Festival, and can confirm that he indeed did say what he was quoted as saying, and that the audience was indeed shocked when he said it. (Some other impressions here.)
And you know what? His "clarification" doesn't add much. I didn't think he was aligning himself with al-Qaeda when he said that "we cheered when 9/11 happened." But I didn't exactly find myself full of warm, fuzzy feelings toward him. If anything was fuzzy, it was his political philosophy. Global revolution leading to utopia? C'mon. Really. ("I find your views intriguing. Where may I subscribe to your newsletter?")
What about all the people who weren't wealthy plutocrats that died that day? How many of the people killed were just working folks, doing their jobs? I'm sure a substantial proportion of them were trying to get by on minimum wage or some other subsistence-level incomes.
I think that what KRS-ONE said was utterly shocking, and was actually surprised that it didn't get more national coverage than it did.
Oh yeah, and Sizzurp is stupid too, and well-deserving of protest.
Posted by: Vidiot at October 22, 2004 11:15 PMRe: "ironic" trailer-park style:
Maud and I encountered a Williamsburg waitress wearing a baby T with the Confederate battle flag on it at Black Betty a couple years back. That kicks the white-trash fetish up to a whole new level: not just Patronizing, but Offensive too!
I like to imagine what would happen if that Dixie-loving wench migrated to Bed-Stuy in search of cheaper rent, and tried wearing that shirt in her new 'hood.
Also: wasn't the whole trucker-cap fad just an extension of the same thing? I always thought so.
Posted by: Max at October 25, 2004 02:19 PMcome on, even george orwell romanticized being poor.
let's cut these rich, fashionless people a fucking break.
i mean, they are saddled with thankless teenagers.
Posted by: fishfucker at October 26, 2004 01:38 PM