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Salon - Cracker Central
The only thing which is dead or uncool is Salon. This is a new height in thinly veiled racism.
A mixed race, black identified man has a strong chance to getthe presidential nomination, including strong support from young people and blacks.
And Salon just happens to print a rant by an older white magazine editor who proclaims:
Since when did young black men, heretofore the arbiters of pop culture, become so lame? And since when did the citizens of that culture not know the difference?
He just happens to back this extreme statment using highly selective and dubious examples from his childhood and now.
Had someone made a sweeping provocative statement about some other group with such a myopic viewpoint, I'm not sure Salon would publish it.
Since it's about young black men being lame and less saavy than an white people, however, it's worthy of Salon.