Kanye West Doesn't Care About French People

By now, we all know that rap music is responsible for global warming (or it would be if global warming weren't just a myth).

Is there any havoc the American Negro can't wreak when he puts his mind to it?

David Brooks has been- rightly so - getting a lot of flak for his NY Times piece in which he writes that the two role models available to young Musims are Osama bin Laden and Tupac Shakur. Tupac?

Brooks's column is easy to bash, if for no other reason than that it feels risibly out of date. I remember the '80s, when listening to 2 Live Crew was thought to cause folks to spontaneously gang rape nuns. Or at least white joggers in Central Park. That controversy was remarkable for how easily it confused liberals.

Liberals, as usual, let conservatives set the terms of the debate. In the 2 Live Crew to-do, liberal feminists joined with conservatives to vilify As Nasty as They Want to Be and Skip Gates felt the need to claim that it was a brilliant album in order to defend the group. Maybe he really believed that it's a brilliant album. Maybe.

Liberals are confused again. A lot of the critiques of Brooks's piece are taking the same line: French rap is great art. Some of it surely is (French rap doesn't get much play in the Feemus household, so we are taking it on faith), but is that the point? Are the only two legitimate choices for minority expression 1. to be uplifting and constructive or 2. to be great art? What a lot of horseshit. "White" music is never put to such a test. It can be offensive and mediocre. Now that's freedom.

Gotta go--I've got a stack of G.G. Allin records to play.