To: kristinn
Simmons has a point - except that Common’s audience isn’t made up of Leftist literary critics sipping tea at an Upper East Side symposium on police brutality. It’s made up of teenagers who take his words literally, as an inducement to act.
4 posted on
05/11/2011 7:48:48 AM PDT by
Mr. Jeeves
( "The right to offend is far more important than any right not to be offended." - Rowan Atkinson)
To: Mr. Jeeves
"Simmons has a point - except that Common’s audience isn’t made up of Leftist literary critics sipping tea at an Upper East WEST Side symposium on police brutality. It’s made up of teenagers who take his words literally, as an inducement to act."There. Fixed it.
It's not Common I have an issue with. It's POTUS's endorsement of him that I have an issue with.
49 posted on
05/11/2011 8:39:52 AM PDT by
thefactor
(yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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