Eddie Griffin: The Olympics

Gelber & Manning In Pictures: 101

Blago: “I’m blacker than Barack Obama”

“It’s such a cynical business, and most of the people in the business are full of shit and phonies, but I was real, man — and am real. This guy, he was catapulted in on hope and change, what we hope the guy is. What the fuck? Everything he’s saying’s on the teleprompter. I’m blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up.”

- Rod Blagojevich, former governor of Illinois.

Scarlett Johansson, a walking thesis against the existence of white people

Scarlett Johansson interviewed by Bono in Harper’s Bazaar’s January 2010 issue.

Will they be talking about something charitable and worldly?
Sure.

Incisive and worthwhile?
Probably not.

Self-aggrandizing and oblivious to celebrity activists’ overweening refusal to acknowledge themselves as harbingers of the most insidious new brand of socioeconomic imperialism?
Most certainly.

(Read: this post, “Dead Aid: African Economists versus Bono & Other Rich White Western Dudes.”)

I have said in this space many times that celebrity couples are the way a decadent society expresses themselves. So too in the case of the walking thesis against the existence of white people, the coupling of Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds.

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