Jay Z and the Revolutionary Marxists; Strange Bedfellows

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 Confessions Of How Much Ignorant People Irritate Me

I don't know how long this internet meme has been around. I saw it for the first time last night.  I'm fairly certain that it isn't a master Photoshop mockup.  If it is, I'm gonna owe Jay Z and apology....It's worth the risk.

I can take Jay Z or leave him. I own 2 versions of Empire State of Mind-His version and the Glee version...both of which I downloaded in a manner that recently earned me a waning call from my ISP. Moreover, to JayZ's credit, he got Beyonce to marry him.  It is interesting that the two women most closely associated with Ja Z are his wife, Beyonce, and his co-preformer in Empire State of Mind, Alicia Keys...2 beautiful women who are vastly more talented that Jay Z.  Oh well...this isn't an indictment or celebration of his music.  This is about that fugly T shirt he's wearing...
...he seems to have had a wardrobe malfunction...

To be sure, there are people who think wearing a t-shirt is a seriously worthy expression of their Free Speech.  They think it's cute and clever and maybe even a little risqué to sport historical and cultural icons from Marx to Plato to John Lennon to Lady Gaga...

That's all well and good.

But, there are always the one who has to be gross or perverted or provocative...the one who takes the fun too far.

The NeoNazi's parading through Jewish neighborhoods is certainly a memorable example.  But there are everyday examples.  However, the ones that reach chaff my sense of propriety are the ones who embrace an icon without the smallest clue as to what that icon really means.  The one that are just SO-STUPID.  I mean, dude!!!!  SERIOUSLY!!!  Jay Z is, if the lyrics of Empire State of Mind tell a true story, is from Brooklyn.  Why he feels the need to publicly embrace a person who...

1. Was from Argentina, though involved in the ousting of the Batista regime and the ushering in of kindly uncle Fidel.
2. Was a T-E-R-R-O-R-I-S-T
3. Felt nothing but contempt for the political order that afforded JayZ the freedom to use his talent to earn bucketful's of money making records vastly inferior to those of Eminem.

Why would any sentient being...or Jay Z for that matter...want to wear a grotesquely oversized T-shirt with the visage of a terrorist on it. It boggles the mind...the estimable Mr. Guevara said the following:

"To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary … These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution!”

Charming....

Mr.  Z, might I offer you some advice...go to the library (I understand that there's  a pretty good one in New York) check out books...read the books....(here's the hard part)...sit down and THINK about what you have read...let an opinion form on what you have read...(there is an implied assumption that you will avoid those Charlatans who would tell you what to think...they are the primary reason you are sooooo terribly unoriginal). Through the magical process called C-R-I-T-I-C-A-L- T-H-I-N-K-I-N-G, you can form new and exciting opinions and you will cease to be a mindless caricature of American pop culture. You might be surprised by what forms in your mind...and, no matter what it is...it will be yours. Go with it, dude! Say hi to Beyonce for me.