Young
Jeezy released "My President Is Black" back in August, but, of course,
the track has been juiced since Obama's victory on Nov. 4. Only
in America could someone pen a work in which he boasts about his car's
flashy rims, laments his mounting bills and children's addiction to
expensive clothes, gives a shout-out to dead rapper Pimp C and Martin
Luther King within the same verse, drops the rap version of the "N"
word here and there and there, labels George W. Bush a thief and a
cheat, shouts "My president is black!" and calls Obama his "homie."
A YouTube video of Jeezy's song opens with a shot of Obama in Superman garb in front of an American flag.
No word on whether the new prez has given a shout-out back to Jeezy.
There's more evidence that an Obama presidency is not going to be, as some pundits predicted, a desert for comedy and pop culture shenanigans:
· On "Chocolate News," a new Comedy Central series, comedian David Alan Grier went drag to portray poet Maya Angelou penning an inaugural poem for Obama. Grier's Angelou compared Obama's election to "African-American political hallmarks of the past: the esteemed Shirley Chisholm, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and the debut of Billy Dee Williams as Lando Calrissian in 'The Empire Strikes Back.' "
"Maya" goes on to exclaim: "Mr. Obama, you have a mega-mulatto chokehold on the American dream!" that embraces "the rabbi, the priest, the minister, the imam, the crackhead, the hustler, the buxom blonde, the bubble-butt brown beauty . . . I christen you Hosanna Obama, brown bomber, dark knight . . . Obama, as your spiritual mama, I bid you good morning, happy birthday Mr. President!"
Check out the hilarious video at liveleak.com.
· During the Florida Classic football game last week between Bethune-Cookman University and Florida A&M, souvenir hunters weren't paying much attention to vendors peddling T-shirts for the two HBCUs (historically black colleges and universities).
However, business was boffo for the numerous vendors peddling dozens of styles of Obama tees.
So, yes, the so-called "marketplace of ideas" will continue to thrive not only on cable television networks, newspapers and Web sites, but also in the pop culture marketplace: YouTube, "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," "Chocolate News," T-shirts, bumper stickers, pop music.
Along with all the T-shirts celebrating Obama's victory, a few "Not My President" tees have surfaced with Obama's face (a successor to all those "Not My President" tees featuring Dubya Bush's mug).
And this week I heard a tale secondhand about a man in a Palm Coast grocery store who sported a T-shirt that proclaimed: "Buckwheat is not my president."
Hmmmmm. Looks like interesting times for freedom of speech in the years ahead.
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