Seeking spiritual guidance in a MultiCultClassics Monologue…
• A student artist in Chicago raised hell with his sculpture depicting Sen. Barack Obama as Jesus Christ (pictured above). “All of this is a response to what I’ve been witnessing and hearing, this idea that Barack is sort of a potential savior that might come and absolve the country of all its sins,” said the artist. “In a lot of ways it’s about caution in assigning all these inflated expectations on one individual, and expecting them to change something that many hands have shaped.” The kid sounds like a goddamn moron.
• Meanwhile, spiritual leader Rev. Al Sharpton continues to play politics, getting involved with the feud between rappers in New York that led to Tony Yayo assaulting a 14-year-old kid (see Essay 1905). Sharpton has threatened to launch a boycott against The Game and 50 Cent unless the battles end. “We put the i-n-g in your bling-bling,” said Sharpton. “All of us have children who listen to your music. Some of us listen ourselves. But we don’t want to feel like we’re investing in the demise of our community.” The worst part of this scenario will be the lame rhymes and rhetoric generated by folks like Sharpton.
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