In Yer Face Update on "Common" Rap Crap

In Yer Face Update on "Common" Rap Crap

“In yer face!” is an unpleasant expression, connoting contempt and utter disregard for the object of the taunt.

However, I know of no better description to characterize the attitudes of Mr. and Mrs. Obama toward decency, toward propriety, toward fundamental, civilized respect than their decision to invite and now not to disinvite rap crapper “Common” to a poetry reading Wednesday night at America’s house, the White House.

In light of the firestorm of controversy ignited by that invitation, Press Secretary Jay Carney confirmed at a briefing early Wednesday that, in effect, the president may disagree with some of “Common’s” lyrics but he will defend to the death the rapper’s right to espouse them.

As Carney said, “It’s ironic to pick out those particular lyrics about this particular artist when in fact he’s known as a socially conscious hip hop artist or rapper who, in fact, has done a lot of good things. You can oppose some of what he’s done and appreciate some of the other things he’s done:” http://bit.ly/lvYGWf

The same could easily be said, in Pakistan, of Osama bin Laden.

On behalf of his bosses, Carney praised “Common’s” “positive” influence and went further in his defense of the indefensible by ”noting ["Common"] is known as a ‘conscious rapper’ who can bring poetry to audiences that would not otherwise be exposed to it.” What he meant by “positive” or “conscious” is as unclear as Carney’s definition of poetry.

Either Carney, and the Obamas, are raving jackasses or they are miserably ignorant of just who “Common” is and of what he has spewed, or both.

It all makes one wonder whether the White House and its occupants and apologists give a damn about how blacks, particularly young blacks, interpret an invitation to a foul-mouthed one of their own who raps about little else but violence in one form or another. Obama-haters and America-lovers might interpret it as one more effort to stoke black racism and antipathy toward American culture at the same time it encourages black youth to continue to revel in their own counter-culture. . .
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