Karl Rove validating stereotypes and disgracing his race Very disturbing. I think he set the cause of Caucasian coolness back a couple of decades.
Even my dad, the king of dorks, wouldn't pull that shit. Those guy's are so white, they're translucent.
In the interest of family unity and togetherness, I participated in both The Chicken Dance and the Hokey-Pokey at my sister's wedding. If anyone has video of that event, I will hunt them down, kill them, and dismember their corpse.
The Chicken Dance is cool (especially if you were in Baltimore), but the Hokey Pokey....you're on your own there.
Honestly? I think it's all subjective. We've decided that the dancing Black people do is cool, and that the dancing White people do is not cool. However, we reverse these feelings when dancing (and other art forms) enter the realm of academia- we enjoy blues, reggae, R&B and various African music, but we enjoy AND give academic credbility to classical, ballet, opera... you get the picture. And, jazz studies aside, that picture ain't pretty. Too serious a post for this thread, probably. I know we're supposed to be poking fun at Rove, so... Dude couldn't get any whiter if you painted him.
Bill Murray: It's because I'm white, isn't it? Michael Jordan: Larry's white. Bill Murray: Larry's not white. Larry's clear.
'Black' music is by far the most popular in the world today. Do you really need it to be approved and validated by a bunch of grey old academics who dislike anything that wasn't written prior to the 20th century? I'm a 25 year old Belgian and almost every type of music I like was inspired by the groundbreaking work of a handful of African American southerners in the first half of the 20th century. I'd value the approval and validation of millions of "real" people ahead of that of a few hundred academics, who are proving their own irrelevance every day by their reluctance to leave their cultural ivory tower.