http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/14/arts/14clay.html?hp&ex=1166158800&en=5a940ed1d3e5d6a4&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Now why on earth would this man have to struggle to house his mother's phenomenal collection of black history memorabilia chronicling the African American experience? BECAUSE YOU BASTARD GET RICH QUICK RAP STARS HAVE NO TRUE APPRECIATION FOR YOUR OWN CULTURE BEYOND WHAT YOU CAN POPULARLY EXPLOIT.

Sure, P Diddy/Puff Daddy/Sean Combs and friends would have you believe that their struggles represent the true modern black experience - it sells records to spin tales of police brutality in eights (and no, I do not doubt for a minute that it indeed is a widespread problem,) however the fact of the matter remains that Bad Boy entertainment and its dashing president and founder represents nothing but the self absorbed myopic view of new money revelling in its own importance.

Allan Iverson, Kobe Bryant, Sean Combs, Russell and Kimora Lee Simmons
- all of these "moguls" (I refuse to remove the quotation marks) have the potential to catch the Oprah bug and give back to the community they so cleverly exploited to make their gains. I don't know of an awful lot of white people willing to beg, steal, or borrow to spend $90 on BabyPhat.

Instead, they blow money on White Parties and leave these first edition Langston Hughes languishing in a garage.