Apologies for the length, but I come back from playing LA Noire for the past 5 hours and heard that they were having demonstrations all over the country today for Trayvon??
Didn't even hear about it honestly. Wonder if anyone from the coli went.
The one thing that disgusted me about the Trayvon thing was a post being circulated throughout Facebook about this dude who was a 'thug' and then went on to become a MD. tbh, I wasn't all that emotionally invested, or interested at all in the Trayvon case from the beginning, or when the verdict was read. The FB post was a perfectly fine story, he was a kid who I guess was a thug who is a doctor now (though the only thing that tipped readers off about that was that he had one of those dual photos with a pic of his old self mugging a camera in a durag and then that was set next to a recent picture of him holding a clipboard and in a white coat. Very med school, very MD.)
Anyway, he had a two or three paragraph salvo about his life and how he could've been Trayvon but he wasn't Trayvon. The entire thing was so offensive. When you discuss a case like this on a social networking site it automatically converts from being about a young kid being killed, to you. YOU could have been Trayvon. I could have been shot. I could have died. I, I, I, I, Me. But the thing is he wasn't killed, he wasn't even in the state, the case had nothing to do with him. I'm not trying to downplay the fact that the specter of race manipulated the outcome of the case, or naively trying to ignore the realities of being black in America. But it's bad when people try to make the case about themselves, something that inevitably happens on FB and twitter which is hard to avoid. It's even doubly obnoxious when people humblebrag about their glorious monied vocational paths stretching out before them and trying to exploit a murder case to further their own careerist motives through self-promotion on a social media site.
Then another pacspit worthy tidbit is seeing Jay-Z and his glossed up hoodrat being the focal point of most of the stories I've seen about the rallies today. If it wasn't already apparent that these rallies and demonstrations were going to peter out next week once the media doesn't care anymore, it certainly accelerates the attention expiration date once you glop on a liberal helping of celebrity trivia on top. People whose very existence and movements within our culture is pure piffle. Thank god Jay didn't shout out the NSA on MCHG or else I would've already forgotten about the sinister fukks. It's always a trainwreck when the glitterati try to come down with the unwashed commoners to unite for a common cause, essentially because it's impossible to do just that. If anything, the sleb looks woefully out of place, looking around, craning their necks, gawping, casually traipsing through the crowded demonstration looking like they just wandered into an art festival after their brunch of bottomless mimosas and coke.
I got a flashback to when Kanye was at Occupy Wall Street which was just farcical upon recollection. The movement was already an impotent mess, but then you have Kanye with Russell Simmons, who was speaking for Kanye. While the other rich guy is speaking for the other rich guy, Kanye has his best puppy dog eyes on display, with a face that says, "Hey guys I'm compassionate, concerned, and not at all out of touch!" all the while he does not utter a word like some billionaire mute pre-teen kid upset that his eccentric parents dragged him out of the house to go hang out with 'the help.'
Kanye rubbing shoulders with Zizek, you couldn't make it up
at nas - liar tapes and attic monkeys
this season. There can be a thing like too much parity.
