A: BECAUSE THEY'RE HUMONGOUS PIECES OF MORALLY COMPROMISED SHIT!!!
Case in point: The utterly loathsome Armond White -- formerly a film reviewer for the old and unmissed New York Press (and, inexplicably, for The Nation, which I hope will be similarly unmissed very soon) -- on the new Spike Lee/David Byrne movie American Utopia. Over at the website of white supremacist journal NATIONAL REVIEW.
I will not quote anything from it at length, but suffice it to say that White refers to Eric Garner, Freddie Gray and Trayvon Martin (!!!) as "dead black scofflaws."
Words fucking fail me.
Wasn't Bangs a conservative? Or was he just a drunk and a contrarian?
ReplyDeleteHow can you be a scofflaw if you're dead?
ReplyDeleteI have a friend, who when confronted with racist and political bullshit like that you point to, dismisses the schmuck, schmuckette or schmucks with two letters, FM, as in Fucking Moron. I too now do so.
ReplyDeleteI knew Lester Bangs. Lester Bangs was a friend of mine.
ReplyDeleteLester would never -- and I mean NEVER -- have dismissed Trayvon Martin like that.
HE WAS FROM FUCKING DETROIT, FOR CRISSAKES! HE KNEW FROM BLACK PEOPLE AND POLICE BRUTALITY!!!
What does any of this have to do with "power pop"?
ReplyDeleteAnonymous (because I am not interested in any political blowback, just music.
It's because of living in the real world. If you don't get that, you need to have a word with yourself.
ReplyDeleteWhy do the critics always remain anonymous? If you want to criticize, do it like a man.
ReplyDeleteI'll show you.
This post has nothing to do with power pop. But I'll take it. It's a brief respite from the Willie Nile posts.
There!
Nobody likes a wiseguy, Sal. :-)
ReplyDeleteNever trust a critic named Armond. Armand? Maybe. But probably not.
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