The Hip Hop Anthropologist

Bernie Sanders is a counter-culture, anti-hero, masked as a grumpy, elderly flavor of the week for privileged, young white romantics. He grudgingly suspended his campaign last week after his latest (and final) presidential aspirations were u nceremoniously thwarted by South Carolina Democrats; a critical core constituency in the Democratic establishment; one whose political ascendancy threatens to supplant Iowa and New Hampshire's traditional moorings as reliable prognosticators for the Democratic presidential nomination. The black voters in SC pragmatically rallied around  an old skool liberal named Joe Biden in an unusual act of defiance and self-preservation, whose benign racism and notorious sexism enables him to facilely navigate diverse constituencies with competing interests, who they know can get s... done.  Implicit in the endorsement is the promise to maintain the Democratic status quo. Bernie does not work well with others. Biden does, however. He was a pariah in...

   These “poorly-educated,” working-class white boys ain’t bullshitting. They want their country – read that: “privilege” – back : The unmerited advantage they recklessly wielded (and often employed) like a cudgel over the heads every other ethnic group in America since its official inception in 1492 by white Anglo-Saxon protestants (WASPs) ; repressed folks fleeing oppression and tyranny by the English Crown and Church of England for freedom in the remote wilderness known as America.     Trump got these hillbillie s so riled up they are amassing at the polls like the Syrian Army preparing to breach the gates of Aleppo . These hick s have really brought into Trump’s game: an empty slogan, “We gonna Make America Great Again” to inform their vote.    What kind of bullshit is that? Man, I wish I could pimp that hard. Shit, the only state we’d be in is a state of bliss if my game was that tight. Funny thing, there is not a brother or sist...