24 Replies to “I Have A Dream”

  7. MLK must be rolling in his grave. To fight and die in the struggle for civil rights, to benefit bozos like these useless gangsters. Oops, is that racist? TOO BAD.

  9. Funny comments here and there.
    “I suppose we should clutch our collective pearls at the thought of a negro gentleman buying truffles. Why, the very idea.”

  11. It’s the way she tries to conjure an air of Great Sociological Import while being comically presumptuous and parochial. I suppose we should clutch our collective pearls at the thought of a negro gentleman buying truffles. Why, the very idea.
    Posted by: David | November 22, 2012 at 11:25

  13. Do they actually pay someone to write this drivel,there must be something more important to write about than what some rapper had for lunch.Not even a mention of what Justin had for breakfast or what tie he selected for the day,how unliberal of the Guardian!

  14. Isn’t he an adviser to President Obama? Along with some other rap-girl? As such he’s more than entitled to his entitlements, and they’re all entitled to yours too!

  16. Frankemm, you got it.
    In my day we called a story like that “filler”, used to make the Sunday edition heavier.

  17. Hate to admit it but I have tried Truffles and Caviar. ….and wouldn’t pay more than 79 cents a pound for either one. If status tastes like crap then I can understand, otherwise I just don’t get it.

  19. I read this article this morning, and the appalling stupidity of it started building up some rant pressure which I must now vent.
    ahem. [rantmode[on]];
    From the article: “With his latest truffle extravaganza, what Jay-Z is in effect saying is that the world of decadent foodstuffs is not off limits – not to him, or to hip-hop culture. Assumptions are slowly being challenged.”
    The whole point of this woman’s article is the last sentence. “Assumptions are slowly being challenged.” This “challenging assumptions” business is the root of the Post-Modern Art weed which is strangling Western culture these days. This need to “transgress” against the “norms” of society, to chastise Westerners for their beliefs and the way they take certain values and behaviors for granted, it forms the whole foundation and most of the body of work performed by modern writers and journalists.
    Consider that the bare fact of a wealthy black person buying truffles is entirely unremarkable. People don’t usually become wealthy because they are stupid or undiscerning, and truffles are very expensive because they are A) hard to grow and B) extremely popular among people with discerning tastes. Rich people buy truffles because they are tasty. No doubt I’d buy them too, if they weren’t so expensive I’ve never sampled one.
    Consider that the stereotype of “violent @sshole” pinned on rap musicians is not undeserved. That is in fact the whole point of rap music, and musicians vie with each other to see who can amass the biggest reputation as the most hard core criminal possible.
    So here we have little Miss Kieran Yates celebrating the expansion of “bling” to include expensive food, as if that was a good thing.
    The Vikings used to like bling too. They liked it so much they used to make piles of it. Some guys used to bling-out the skulls of their enemies and display them. Some guys have the “potlatch” ceremony in which items of great worth are displayed and then destroyed to show the owner’s power. (This prominently included slaves on the west coast of Canada, for those who may be interested in what bastiges the eeeeevile Europeans were for interfering with indigenous culture.)
    The concept is you make a big pile of the sh1t you stole to scare your enemies and let the ladies know how big your b@lls are. Its not a new idea, and its not a good idea either.
    Now, its entirely possible that putting Mr. Jay Z and “barbarian” in the same sentence is unfair. Mr. Z might well be a man of discerning taste and refinement. I’m sure I don’t know, and I’m very sure I don’t care. At all. Because this isn’t about Mr. Jay Z.
    Its about little Miss Kieran Yates, the Guardian, and the Western Left in general and their fetishistic celebration of BARBARISM. The very idea that rappers [aka violent @ssholes] are trying to expand their notion of bling, or as they used to say in the old days “booty”, “swag”, “loot” and all the other synonyms for “something valuable which was probably stolen” is not something that should be getting celebrated in a civilized society. Barbarian activities and barbaric practices are NOT GOOD THINGS if you’re trying to keep a civilization going.
    Therein lies the issue. Little Miss Kieran Yates and company are not trying to keep civilization going. They are trying to BREAK it and replace it with barbarism. When white people buy truffles that’s Imperialist hegemony. When black rappers do it, its -cool-.
    Here’s what I want to know, little Miss Kieran Yates: is it still going to be cool when rappers start wearing the finger bones of their enemies as earrings? Scalps as fashion accessories, the next couture craze? YouTubes of counting coup before bludgeoning/shooting/stabbing their foes to death, hot or not? Ear collections, the next must-have item for the aspiring musician?
    [./rant/.]:

  21. I agree with The Phantom
    but this one makes a good point as well ( from the link )

    “[…]his purchase he is showing the world that taste is not for the white elite to dictate”……
    I would have thought copying the spending habits of the “white elite” shows the exact opposite.
    Posted by: Bart | November 22, 2012 at 17:46
    A black man acting white – in fact acting very white – is him showing the world that whites can not dictate how she should act??? huh???
    liberals are brilliantly stupid regardless of the color of their skin

  23. “Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
    Oscar Wilde
    Posted by: nold at November 22, 2012 10:56 AM

    I wish I had quoted that, nold.
    ;^)

  24. All I saw was an article about an obscenely wealthy Obama supporter eating what his ghetto trash listeners never could. White liberals are stunned about anything, really. These people don’t get out much but they assure everyone that they have lots of Negro/trans/multi-gender friends.
    What’s the all the truffle about?

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