We interrupt this broadcast to bring you a special bulletin from our on the spot task force*

Front porch of Professor Henry Louis Gates's residence,  #Redacted Ware Street, Cambridge, MA 1 August 2009:

WTF?
A) The National Conversation on Race™ has devolved into a beer tasteoff.**
or
B) Gates will start drinking domestic, nay Boston-brewed beer. Let the healing begin!
or
C) Other. Feel free to chime in in the comments below.

*A prize to the first person to twig this phrase.
**On the egghead tip, the notion of the disavowal of the political Zizek outlines (put in the diacritics yourself, if you want) seems to be a pollyannaish overestimation of the ability of US discourse to reduce any political conversation into a variant of the Pepsi Challenge in the time it would take Johnny Knoxville to fly a Stuka into a whoopie cushion factory.

Comments

[Brie]

that would be lyrics from Eric Burton's "Paid in Full".

also, the amount of beer needed to fix social issues like this would be counterproductive to the cause - or everyone will pass out several hours into the negotiations and wake up forgetting why they were drinking in the first place. maybe someone can set up a solution while no one else is conscious.

cheers!

[Mandy Mastrovita]

Now THAT'S some ballsy street team action. If you are the responsible party, I salute you.

MM

[kg]

It might be more accurate to say Eric B and Rakim's Paid in Full (7 Minutes of Madness Coldcut remix). I can't source the sample, but have always thought it sounded like Don Pardo. In any case, I will sing the whole thing for you if there's a prize in it :)

xo
kg

(realizing now my prize is learning this use of twig from you! long ago, you taught me ubiquitous and unwieldy, too.)