[thefactor]

"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.

[RummyChick]

Celebrating a poet who writes this kind of thing just doesn’t sit right with me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LssFolrpiD4&feature=player_embedded#at=44

Yes, he can write whatever he wants..but to have a Black President condone this black crap is disgusting

But what takes the cake for me is that Laura Bush couldn’t even have Dickninson read at a poety event.

I saw something where the Obama’s didn’t know what kind of lyrics he wrote.

I call BS.