A Veterans Day Thought: President Bush Bowed Before the Awesome Power of BRA

Veterans Day, 2010. Knowing that many members of the United States military read this blog, please allow us at Stuff Black People Don't Like to take a moment to honor you and your services. Few institutions are worth defending in Black Run America (BRA) anymore, but the core message that is behind the oath every member of the military must take is one worth considering.

Enemies both foreign and domestic.

Black Run America's (BRA) biggest sycophant

The United States Constitution is the most frequently cited document by those who falsely profess love and admiration to this country, and the most infrequently respected document by those mandated with protecting it.

We have talked about the military many times before at this blog, pointing out that the special forces of the United States remain monochromatic; that the US Coast Guard has difficulty finding qualified Black candidates who can remain in the program; that the United States Air Force deploys flight squadrons that have less Black people than the film Top Gun; the Greatest Generation wasn't exactly a diverse bunch; Naval Academy standards must be lowered so that Black people can qualify for enrollment; and that Chief Moose of the DC Sniper fame apparently runs the human resource department for the US Army now at Fort Hood.

We have also discussed George W. Bush and Kanye West too, twin pillars of American Exceptionalism.

President Bush was beloved by the military, a man whose Mission Accomplished moment in 2003 couldn't have been better scripted by Hollywood writers or Madison Avenue copy writers if they were given an unlimited budget and every A-level actor to choose from.

Fitting though, that President Bush display his complete subservience to Black Run America (BRA) and perfidious nature when questioned about his worst moments as Commander-in-Chief, and leader of the proverbial "free world":

Former President George W. Bush says that Kanye West's insinuation that he is a racist, made in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, still stings today — and that the episode was the "all-time low" point of his presidency.

Bush's long-delayed reaction to West's ad-libbed comment that "George Bush doesn’t care about black people," made during a live TV benefit show for hurricane survivors, is from an interview the former president taped with Matt Lauer of NBC.

Here's the exchange, from an early transcript the network released, as quoted by Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly:

“He called me a racist,” Bush tells Lauer. “And I didn’t appreciate it then. I don’t appreciate it now. It’s one thing to say, ‘I don’t appreciate the way he’s handled his business.’ It’s another thing to say, ‘This man’s a racist.’ I resent it, it’s not true.”

Lauer quotes from Bush’s new book: “Five years later I can barely write those words without feeling disgust.” Lauer adds, “You go on: ‘I faced a lot of criticism as president. I didn’t like hearing people claim that I lied about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction or cut taxes to benefit the rich. But the suggestion that I was racist because of the response to Katrina represented an all-time low.’

President Bush responds: “Yeah. I still feel that way as you read those words. I felt ‘em when I heard ‘em, felt ‘em when I wrote ‘em, and I felt ‘em when I’m listening to ‘em.

Lauer: “You say you told Laura at the time it was the worst moment of your presidency?”

Bush: “Yes. My record was strong, I felt, when it came to race relations and giving people a chance. And it was a disgusting moment.”
  Lauer: “I wonder if some people are going to read that, now that you’ve written it, and they might give you some heat for that. And the reason is this — “

Bush [interrupting]: “Don’t care.”

Lauer: “Well, here’s the reason. You’re not saying that the worst moment in your presidency was watching the misery in Louisiana. You’re saying it was when someone insulted you because of that.”

Bush: “No, and I also make it clear that the misery in Louisiana affected me deeply as well. There’s a lot of tough moments in the book. And it was a disgusting moment, pure and simple.”

No greater simultaneous devotion and acquiescence to the ideals that power Black Run America (BRA) can be located then these words from George W. Bush, a man who even considered endorsing Barack Obama in 2008, if he had been asked:

Yesterday, an even more intriguing story appeared on a blog of the Financial Times. Alex Barker writes of his "favourite Bush anecdote," which "some of the witnesses still dine out on":

The venue was the Oval Office. A group of British dignitaries, including Gordon Brown, were paying a visit. It was at the height of the 2008 presidential election campaign, not long after Bush publicly endorsed John McCain as his successor.

Naturally the election came up in conversation. Trying to be even-handed and polite, the Brits said something diplomatic about McCain’s campaign, expecting Bush to express some warm words of support for the Republican candidate.

Not a chance. “I probably won’t even vote for the guy,” Bush told the group, according to two people present. “I had to endorse him. But I’d have endorsed Obama if they’d asked me.”

Recall Stuff White People Like #8, and you might begin to understand that George Bush has more in common with SWPL whites than he does with Untouchable whites that he professes to represent. Had he given Obama his endorsement, we might be already bombing Iran with Mr. McCain in office.

White Guilt is the Original Sin, an all-encompassing mindset that deludes people into believing every concession made to Black people will ultimately end with the cessation of the question "And Then?"

In Black Run America, being called a "racist" is the ultimate road to perdition and George W. Bush is haunted not by 9/11, two wars that have taken the lives of countless Americans or a global financial crisis that was exacerbated by decisions he made in office, but by the callous words of Kanye West when he stammered incoherently on live TV next to Michael Myers and let out the immortal line: "George Bush doesn't care about Black people."

Happy Veterans Day, 2010. May we one day look back on the failed experiment known as Black Run America (BRA) and remember the capitulations that men like George W. Bush made to ensure it would endure.

It his intense devotion to the principle of BRA that will only augment the numbers of Those who can see.

Thank you Veterans. Now the question is when will men of character and quality rise so that the failed social scientists of the 21st century will finally be called out for bringing this world to the edge of chaos and ruination?

Raymond Martinez - the Ultimate SBPDL

For nearly six months we at SBPDL have been chronicling Stuff Black People Don't Like, and in the process left some people incapable of discerning what the true endgame of the site is and more importantly, why have embarked and such a seemingly Quixotic quest.

One of those reasons is simple: We have been searching for the ultimate manifestation of SBPDL and we have finally found an individual who encompasses the characteristics required for inclusion in the SBPDL Hall of Fame.

His name? Raymond Martinez:

"Guns, drugs, prostitutes and an endless stream of expletives filled the rap lyrics — and the life — of Raymond Martinez, the Times Square gunman who shot off two rounds from his MAC 10 before an NYPD officer took him down late Thursday morning.

When he wasn’t running CD scams on tourists in Times Square, the 25-year-old Bronx native — rap name “Ready” — was likely hanging with his buddies, drinking, smoking pot and laying down tracks, according to his friends.

“I’ll break your legs, have your brains looking like eggs,” Martinez raps in one song."

“Square Free” has a MySpace page with several images of their front man, Martinez. In a chilling harbinger of things to come, one image was digitally altered to make it look like Martinez was standing in the blood-spattered entryway of his apartment building with a machine gun lying at his feet.

Another picture shows him smoking what appears to be marijuana and a third is a cartoonish depiction of a man carrying a huge gun with a caption reading “THEM SUCKERS AINT TAKIN ME NO WHERE…”

It will be a difficult feat to duplicate the stupendous success that this Black gentlemen managed in his short-life, for he is one of the finest representations of SBPDL to ever grace the United States, as his esteemed presence is testament to the importance of this website.

How about some more background on this strange story out of New York City:

"Raymond Martinez was running a common scam on the throngs of holiday tourists in Times Square, pushing shoppers to buy his CDs, police said. But Martinez was no ordinary peddler, they said: He was carrying a loaded pistol and had a handful of business cards from gun dealers in his pockets.

The 25-year-old was shot to death by a plainclothes police sergeant Thursday after trading gunfire in the taxi area of the landmark Marriott Marquis hotel.

Sgt. Christopher Newsom operates a task force that monitors aggressive panhandling and was patrolling with an anti-crime unit when he recognized Martinez and his brother from past run-ins. He asked the two for their tax stamps, which allow peddlers to sell on the streets. But Martinez took off running, through to the hotel's passenger drop-off area.

Newsom pursued, and Martinez turned and fired with a machine pistol that held 30 rounds, getting off two shots before it jammed, police said. The officer fired four times, striking Martinez in the chest and arms and killing him, police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.

"We're lucky the weapon jammed," Kelly said."

Lucky his weapon jammed? Don't these people know that SBPDL includes gun safety! And worse, this whole incident could have been avoided had Mr. Martinez just cooperated with the police!

Apparently, Mr. Martinez didn't find the rap song "F*** tha Police" a merely fictitious diddy, for he prepared to engage the police in a scene worthy of the OK Corral:

"NYPD Sergeant Christopher Newsom, a 17-year veteran of the force, shot and killed Martinez in front of the Marriot Marquis after the street vendor ran from him and fired two rounds before his gun jammed, the New York Times reported.

Martinez, who rapped under the alias "Ready," held the gun sideways and parallel to the ground, a style popular in rap videos, and that caused it to "stovepipe," or jam, according to the New York Post.

There were 27 rounds left in the gun."

Interestingly, Mr. Martinez was a devout fan of Myspace (page here), and found Facebook less desirable.

Better than that though, is Mr. Martinez disgust at rap music going soft, for he was an aspiring spinner of words into rhythmically enhanced verbiage:

"An up-and-coming rapper by the name of Ready had a brush with fame before his life was taken last Thursday in NYC's Times Square. In 2008, Ready (born Raymond Martinez) squared off with Grammy Award-winning rapper/producer Kanye West during an episode of MTV’s “Hood Fab.”

Ready pulled out a last-minute victory during his “Hood Fab” challenge with Ye and received a package of tube socks and a Footlocker gift certificate."

Mr. Martinez (or Mr. Ready) found the wonderfully gifted Kanye West, to be a chump in the annals of real-life gangsta rap star, for he lived a full life and died a true to his roots (a video of Kanye and Mr. Ready can be found here).

Will this incident become yet another Sean Bell ordeal? Or will the melancholy ending of Mr. Ready's life become yet another wasted soul in the endless parade of Stuff Black People Don't Like?

Only time will tell... and only SBPDL will report.

Rest In Peace, Mr. Ready. You lived a life true to SBPDL principles and for that, you will never be forgotten.

#99. Country Music

"Some say it's a backward place
narrow minds on the narrow way
but I make it a point to say
that's where I come from."

These lyrics to Kenny Chesney's song "Back Where I Come from" epitomize how the entire world views heterosexual, white males who display any semblance of pride in who they are and where they come from.

To Black people, this song - if they've ever heard it at all - might as well be played in the opening scenes of Leni Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will", for Black people view country music and the people who listen to this nefarious genre of music as the direct descendants of the Nazi's.

It was said by a prominent Civil Rights activist that the path to equality would have to run against the south, and yet, "there the south stood, with a fiery sword."

That sword was sheathed thanks to college football, but within the lyrics of country music songs, the performers who write these hits and the millions of fans around the world who congregate in a sea of whiteness at country music concerts, Black people are beginning to wonder if that sword might be unsheathed at some point.

Kanye West, self-proclaimed King of the World, recently decided to interrupt country singer Taylor Swift at a moment of triumph for the young star. Country music fans around the world saw this as a direct assault on "one of their own" and were shocked that nary a soul (save Beyonce) came to her rescue.

There exist no people on the planet as loyal to a country as country music fans. They drape themselves in the red, white and blue and love Pre-Obama America with a ferocity that would make Abraham Lincoln chuckle.

And it is for this reason that Black people look with suspicious eyes at country music fans and shield themselves from listening to this form of music, even though an estimated two percent of the country music audience is Black.

Of course, another reason Black people might not like country music is expressed beautifully in this quote:

"Or does the problem lie with people like MCA Nashville president Tony Brown, one of the most respected judges of talent on Music Row? "Country basically is white music. Why would black people want to sing those straight notes...?" he asked in a November 1996 New York Times interview. "To me, black music is about feeling and white music is about no feeling."

No, the reason Black people find country music so violent to the ears is because of the message they wrongly perceive to be behind it and who listens to the music: Middle America, i.e., the media code-word for white people.

What qualifies as country music?:

"Country music (or country and Western) is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in traditional folk music, Celtic music, gospel music and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s.

The term country music began to be used in the 1940s when the earlier term hillbilly music was deemed to be degrading and the term was widely embraced in the 1970s, while country and Western has declined in use since that time, except in the United Kingdom and Ireland, where it is still commonly used.

In the Southwestern United States a different mix of ethnic groups created the music that became the Western music of the term country and Western. The term "country music" is used today to describe many styles and subgenres."

Automatically, anytime a Black person hears country music on the radio, save for that purported two percent (a statistical anomaly or perhaps masochists), the iconography and theme song from Deliverance are the first thoughts that enter a Black persons mind, followed immediately by the Nazi, er, Confederate Flag.

Country music is synonymous with white people in the eyes of Black people and the only form of music that Black people have yet to try enter, at least with great success.

One such intrepid Black person who has thrown his cowboy hat into the white-world of country music is Cowboy Troy, who has tried to fuse rap with country, but his act has not caught on as well as hoped. More so, he is a dreaded Black Conservative, which puts him squarely at odds with Black people as he is a Republican, automatically a Token Black and is trying to Act White.

Worse, he has yet to be embraced by country music fans and is an outcast in his own community.

Interestingly, he is a fan of the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), and it was in an organization that WWE bought, World Championship Wrestling (WCW), the disconnect between rap and country music was prominently on display:

"The West Texas Rednecks formed in June 1999 in WCW. The group developed from four wrestlers who fit the mold of a southern gimmick and had teamed with one another in the recent months. They were to be a heel group to feud with the No Limit Soldiers led by Master P. But the WCW fans, the majority of whom were in the south, did not boo the Rednecks and disliked the rappers instead. The feud was quickly dropped and the Rednecks were given other face groups to quarrel with instead. They lasted until late October 1999.

The group was made up of leader Curt Hennig, brothers Barry and Kendall Windham, and Bobby Duncum, Jr.. Although Hennig was actually from Minnesota, they billed him as being from Texas like the others. They filmed several vignettes with them riding four-wheelers and they recorded a country song called "Rap is Crap," that received some airplay in the south and on WCW television. The song is mainly about the bands apparent dislike for the genre of rap music. It also discusses some of the bands favorite things associated with the southern culture and country music. "Rap is Crap" can be found on WCW Mayhem: The Music. Their second theme song "Good Ol' Boys" was based on Jeff Jarrett's theme song from the mid 1990s. The Windham brothers won the WCW World Tag Team Championship during this time together. They were joined by Curly Bill, who wore a particularly humorous cowboy outfit, near the end of the group's existence.

The group was originally called The West Texas Outlaws, with West Texas Rednecks intended as an insult. The combination of the popularity of the name West Texas Rednecks, however, combined with the commentators almost never using the stable's proper name, resulted in the Rednecks becoming the group's official name."

Professional wrestling as a petri dish of understanding popular culture and how different racial groups respond to different tendencies in music. Who knew?

Country music has long been seen as an incubator of hate music, as Black people think anytime a guitar, beer and white people get together, a lynch mob can't be far away:

"As an example of how new this was, I noted how country singer Toby Keith’s 2003 hit with country icon Willie Nelson, “Beer for My Horses” that contained the lyrics

"Grandpappy told my pappy back in my day, son
A man had to answer for the wicked that he’d done
Take all the rope in Texas
Find a tall oak tree, round up all of them bad boys
Hang them high in the street
For all the people to see elicited no controversy at the time."

Well, now Keith is set to star in a movie based on the song, and now the always insufferable Max Blumenthal has procalimed the song to by a “pro-lynching anthem.” He is particularly incensed that Keith is performing the song on the Colbert Report, The Jay Leno Show, and other venues and no doubt his buddies at Media Matters and the Southern Poverty Law Center will follow up.

Blumenthal writes in the Huffington Post “During the days when Toby Keith’s “Grandpappy” stalked the Jim Crow South, lynching was an institutional method of terror employed against blacks to maintain white supremacy.

Blumenthal fails to note that the song is a duet with country icon Willie Nelson who actually sings the offending lines. Nelson has impeccable left wing credentials and played at the 2004 Democratic convention and is expected to play in 2008. I am still waiting for Blumenthal to object.

Furthermore, like the videos for other country music songs that decry street crime like Montgomery Gentry’s “You Do Your Thing, I’ll Do Mine” and Hank Williams Jr.’s “A Country Boy Can Survive” the video for Beer For My Horses portrays urban criminals is white.

Nonetheless, Blumethal insists the song and video are all about encouraging lynching African Americans,

Cue ahead to 3:00 and watch as Keith intones, “We got too many gangsters doin’ dirty deeds.” The singer’s words are not-so-subtly accompanied by the image of a swaggering black man sporting short dreads and baggy clothes. Thus the profile of Keith’s ideal lynching candidate is revealed."

Country music has an audience that is nearly 100 percent white. It is a form of music that resonates with white people in the south, and yet, can be heard in California, Minnesota, New York and any state where white people live.

Songs like Toby Keith's "American Ride" speak to the growing anger in MARs, who are slowly awakening from a long cultural nap:

"Winter gettin colder, summer gettin warmer.
Tidal wave comin cross the Mexican border.
Why buy a gallon, its cheaper by the barrel.
Just dont be busted singin Christmas carols."

Black people don't like George W. Bush and in that horrible storm that he caused called Katrina, Black people decided to try and salvage as much of New Orleans as they could and went to local stores to safe-guard valuables. However, they seemed to leave some goods to the ravages of the flood:

"The Wal-Mart store in uptown New Orleans, built within the last year, survived the storm but was destroyed by looters.

"They took everything, all the electronics, the food, the bikes," said John Stonaker, a Wal-Mart security officer. "People left their old clothes on the floor when they took new ones. The only thing left are the country-and-western CDs. You can still get a Shania Twain album."

Country music is a demonic form of music in the eyes of Black people, and a mechanism for cultural homogeneity that could unite MARs and return the fiery sword to not just southerner's, but all white people's hands. In South Africa, a song called "De La Ray" is uniting Afrikaners against an alien government there that seeks to dehumanize the white populace.

You can't have a revolution without a good dance, and Black people had their own with gangsta rap, but that revolution has gone soft. With Mein Obama in the White House, Black people rightly believe the "colored" revolution has won.

Yet, Black people know that sword still exists and they grow weary as country music continues to speak to "the soul's of white folks".

In the end, Stuff Black People Don't Like will always include Country Music, a genre of music that Black people will attempt to outlaw as the future reaches us and the reality of Cook County becomes the reality of all America. For Country Music is the one form of music that will unite MARs in the end, and that unwritten song waits in the wings, to Black people's chagrin.

#27. Small Butts

Kanye West is a favorite topic at SBPDL. Our fish stick loving, “no homo” espousing, George W. Bush bashing, Absolute Vodka swilling, Taylor Swift award-crashing friend is also a major lover of women who are callipygous.

Rumors of Kanye West’s love interests include Kym Kardasian, Beyonce and his current squeeze Amber Rose (a female who would pass the paper bag test).

Wait, you might be asking. Back it up. What does callipygous mean?:

“pertaining to or having finely developed buttocks; "the quest for the callipygian ideal."

Big butts. A large backside. Junk in your trunk. Black people love big butts, but you’ll be hard pressed to ever hear or read the phrase callipygous in Black people’s songs about butts. Though, Black people do love big butts, as we consult Sir Mix-a-Lot and his song Baby Got Back:

I like big butts and I can not lie
You other brothers can't deny
That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist
And a round thing in your face
You get sprung, wanna pull out your tough
'Cause you notice that butt was stuffed
Deep in the jeans she's wearing
I'm hooked and I can't stop staring
Oh baby, I wanna get with you
And take your picture
My homeboys tried to warn me
But that butt you got makes me so horny
Ooh, Rump-o'-smooth-skin
You say you wanna get in my Benz?
Well, use me, use me
'Cause you ain't that average groupie
I've seen them dancin'
To hell with romancin'
She's sweat, wet,
Got it goin' like a turbo 'Vette
I'm tired of magazines
Sayin' flat butts are the thing
Take the average black man and ask him that
She gotta pack much back
So, fellas! (Yeah!) Fellas! (Yeah!)
Has your girlfriend got the butt? (Hell yeah!)
Tell 'em to shake it! (Shake it!) Shake it! (Shake it!)
Shake that healthy butt!
Baby got back!

This song is beloved by Black people as well as white people, and yet it hints at a general truth that most people find unnerving. Black people have and Black men love big butts. Some Black people have large butts because they fail to pass on seconds, but others have them because that evil Mendel might have been correct in his theories:

(Gregor Mendel) He came to three important conclusions from these experimental results,

• that the inheritance of each trait is determined by "units" or "factors" that are passed on to descendents unchanged
• that an individual inherits one such unit from each parent for each trait
• that a trait may not show up in an individual but can still be passed on to the next generation.

A former NFL commentator – no less a scientific mind then Mendel – Jimmy “the Greek” Snyder, spent years watching Black people compete in professional football and formed this interesting hypothesis:

"On Jan. 15, 1988, Rather himself aired video shot that afternoon at Duke Zeibert's restaurant in Washington, D.C., featuring Snyder explaining why he thought African-Americans excelled in sports.

"The black is the better athlete," The Greek said. "And he practices to be the better athlete, and he's bred to be the better athlete because this goes way back to the slave period. The slave owner would breed this big black with this big black woman so he could have a big black kid. That's where it all started."

In Africa, Black people of some of the indigenous tribes have gluts that would make Beyonce or other women that Sir-Mix-a-Lot canonized in his early 1990s song quite jealous of and would drive your average Black man into a fit of adolescent joy, thanks to Steatopygia:

"...is a high degree of fat accumulation in and around the buttocks. The deposit of fat is not confined to the gluteal regions, but extends to the outside and front of the thighs, forming a thick layer reaching sometimes to the knee.

This development constitutes a genetic characteristic of the Khoisan. It is especially prevalent in the women of this tribe, but also occurs to a lesser degree in the males. In most ethnic groups of Homo sapiens, females tend to exhibit a greater propensity to adipose tissue accumulation in the buttock region as compared with males. It has also been observed among the Pygmies of Central Africa and the Onge-tribe of the Andaman Islands. Among the Khoisan, it is regarded as a sign of beauty: it begins in infancy and is fully developed by the time of the first pregnancy. It is often accompanied by the formation known as elongated labia (labia minora that may extend as much as 4 inches outside the vulva). This was historically known as the "hottentot apron".

Steatopygia would seem to have been a characteristic of a population which once extended from the Gulf of Aden to the Cape of Good Hope, of which stock Khoisan and Pygmies are remnants. While the Khoisan afford the most noticeable examples of its development, it occurs in other parts of Africa, and occurs even more frequently among male Basters than among Khoikhoi women. It is also observed among females of Andamanese Negritos."

Some Black women in Africa desire big butts so much that they augment them with injections:

“Bobaraba! It means “big bottom,” and it's a hit song and butt-shaking dance phenom sweeping the Ivory Coast, the BBC reports. In fact, some women in the west African nation are so caught up in bobaraba-mania that a black market of “bottom enhancers” has emerged, targeting those who want more junk in the trunk."

The efficacy of the treatments, sold as injections or balms with no ingredients listed, is highly questionable, and some local medical officials are concerned about possible dangers.”

Rap videos, though they have gone soft, now are a mere parade of thick-souled sistas gyrating in swimsuits, with young Black men dancing around them doing their best to dispel rumors of “no homo” and reinforcing the notion of liking big butts.

So, if Black people find big butts desirable, on both the continent of Africa where they spent hundreds of thousands of years evolving and in the United States, where they have spent the last 400 years, this must prove Mendel correct.

Stuff Black People Don’t Like, by the powers of inherited traits and genetics invested in Black people, includes small butts for Black people are predisposed for loving big butts. Sir-Mix-a-Lot did the world a favor when he sang about the advantages of large butts in the eyes of Black people, as he provided us all with a glimpse into the mind of the Black man.

#341. Public Displays of Kanye West

By now – unless you are living in a cave – you are aware of the once controversial cartoon, now innocuous South Park. White people have long enjoyed watching this show that will soon be entering its 15^th season and some conservatives have even tried to show that South Park is an anti-egalitarian show, which of course, incenses Black people.

No one racial group, person, ideology nor religion is safe from the cartoonists who work hard to create South Park and ensure that each week it pushes the envelope of popular culture discourse to a new level of sophisticated lampooning.

The show features a Token Black and has through its nearly 15 year run, poked fun at Black people consistently enough to one day merit an SBPDL entry of its own.

In light of a recent incident that includes the one of the latest South Park celebrity crossovers, that entry must be put on indefinite hold for our old friend Kanye West has supplied more fuel to the suddenly fast spreading fire that is SBPDL.

You may remember Kanye West from the George W. Bush entry or more recently, he was featured as being one of the harbingers of gangsta raps decline into the realm of “no homo”.
Now, West has taken his job as purveyor of all that Black people deem cool and thrown a right-hook into Pre-Obama America’s collective face with his gratifying defense of Beyonce at MTV’s 2009 Video Music Awards (VMA):

"Kanye West gave a performance that will never be forgotten at the MTV Video Music Awards.. stormed on stage to unleash an astonishing rant during an acceptance speech by country starlet Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards last night.The 19-year-old singer, who was collecting Best Female Video for You Belong To Me, was left humiliated as West snatched the microphone from her hands.

He turned to the audience and shouted that the gong should have gone to his big friend Beyonce, for Single Ladies…Swift had breathlessly began her speech with the words, 'I always wondered what it would be like to maybe win one of these some day, but never actually thought it would happen'.

But before she could continue any further, West leaped from his seat in the audience, ran onto the stage and rushed to grab the microphone as a bemused Swfit struggled to take in what was happening.

West told the stunned star: 'Yo Taylor. I'm really happy for you, I'm going to let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time."

Thankfully, Kanye exited the stage he was uninvited to be upon before he could mutter, “George Bush doesn’t like Black people,” again.

Kanye West has been portrayed as the epitome of coolness in advertisements for Pepsi and Absolute Vodka, as in the latter ad, apparent uncool people take tablets to become cool:

“He may or may not need anger management, but Kanye West definitely knows how to self-promote. Here’s an ad he “visioned” for Absolut Vodka where members-only wearing hipsters take large Alka-Seltzer-like pills to be Kanye for a while.”

By extension, the ultimate manner in which to be cool in THE AGE OF OBAMA – and according to Absolute Vodka – is to emulate the behavior of Kanye West by becoming him.

According to the logic of the ad, at every Taylor Swift concert henceforth, people must stumble onto the stage and denigrate this great singer for not living up to Beyonce’s level of entertainment, as Kanye West did as the 2009 VMA awards.

After all, if Kanye West defines cool, then we must emulate him.

Interestingly, the VMA Awards on MTV have long been home to some jaw-dropping moments that have left people scratching their heads:

1984

At the First Annual MTV Video Music Awards in 1984, Madonna's performed "Like A Virgin" wearing a combination bustier/wedding gown, including her trademark "Boy Toy" belt. During the performance, she rolled around on the floor, revealing lacy stockings and garters, and made a number of sexually suggestive moves.

1999

Lil' Kim showed up at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards with an entire breast exposed and only a tiny piece of fabric over the nipple. Kim's outfit became even more controversial later that night, when she appeared on stage with Mary J. Blige and Diana Ross to present an award, and Ross reached over, cupped her hand under Kim's exposed breast and jiggled it while both laughed heartily. It was later described as Ross getting to second base with Kim on national television"

Black people love the MTV awards, for it is a parade of Black achievement (remember, that level of achievement is reserved only for sports, movies and singing) and the decision by Kanye West to denigrate Swift (a white girl) in favor of Beyonce (a Black woman) is not a cause for great concern.

Remember, Absolute Vodka has already alerted the world that the way to be cool is emulate Kanye West and be like him. Thus, we must all engage in the practice of “No Homo”:

"Kanye West made a statement he'd later describe as braver and more difficult than his attack on the White House. Hip-hop, he told MTV, was supposed to be about "speaking your mind and about breaking down barriers, but everyone in hip-hop discriminates against gay people … I wanna just come on TV and just tell my rappers, tell my friends, 'Yo, stop it.'

But old habits die hard, and last week, West amended his position somewhat on "Run This Town," a new Jay-Z single on which the Chicago rapper is a featured guest. "It's crazy how you can go from being Joe Blow," West begins his rap, "to everybody on your dick—no homo." No homo, to those unfamiliar with the term, is a phrase added to statements in order to rid them of possible homosexual double-entendre.”

Black people have been fighting for decades for Civil Rights, equality, a Black president and a complete of ownership of top sports and entertainment figures that white people worship. They have all of that now.

Kanye West, a man that South Park recently spoofed with his great frustration of interpreting a joke, is ruining all of that hard work:

"Kanye West has told fans he's working on playing down his "crazy ego" after being ridiculed in a new episode of "South Park."

In a blog on his official site, Kanyeuniversecity.com, the 31-year-old rapper wrote: "South Park murdered me last night and it's pretty funny. It hurts my feelings but what can you expect." The episode of the merciless Comedy Central cartoon, entitled "Fishsticks," has a character based on West attempt to tap into his "genius" superpowers to solve a schoolyard joke that only he doesn't find funny.

Famous for his over-the-top rants and temper tantrums, West finally appears to have seen the error of his egotistical ways. "The crazy ego is played out at this point in my life and career," he blogged, adding, "I just wanna be a doper person which starts with me not always telling people how dope I think I am. I need to just get past myself."Whether the hip-hop star, who launched his own Nike shoe, the Air Yeezy, last weekend is intent on turning over a new leaf before the launch of his forthcoming new fragrance and energy drink remains to be seen. But he did seem to be get started by signing off with some uncharacteristic self-deprecating humor.
"I'm sure there's grammatical errors in this," he wrote in his signature upper-case type. "That's how you know it's me!"

Black people have long hoped that Kanye West could be the individual to finally pacify white people and complete the process of Blackinizing America entirely. The Absolute Vodka almost accomplished this, but daring to intimidate Taylor Swift has enraged MARs yet again.

Stuff Black People Don’t Like includes public displays of Kanye West, for even though Black people secretly hope that the Absolute Vodka commercial is how white people view West, the reality is he is opening a lot of white people’s eyes as to how Black people really view white people.

George W. Bush, No Homo, Fishsticks and now Taylor Swift… Black people need to muzzle him completely before a few more white people decide to join the real million man march for reasons that don’t include higher taxes.

To view a video of Kanye West verbally abusing Taylor Swift - as Youtube.com has taken down the video already- click here.