Subscribe to Breaking NewsWithers: Steele tries to be hip and fails
A little over a year ago former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney got some mocking from these pages for resorting to phrases like “bling-bling” and “who let the dogs out” when he came across a group of black folk. I was so hoping not to hear “bling-bling” come out of a politician’s mouth, but RNC chair Michael Steele decided to get all hip-hoppity by throwing out Romney’s favorite repeat when talking about the stimulus bill.
I get the way the media world works now. If you want to be asked to pontificate on a news show, spar with those media giants Hannity or Olbermann, the quick retort will serve you well. But being witty with the phrase does not mean using lingo even Willard Scott knows is dated.
And while some might believe the language of what is happening now sounds cooler coming out of the mouth of Steele than Romney because the RNC chair has frizzier hair, they would be mistaken because Steele is not, and never has been, with it, cool, hip, down, gagnsta, or whatever phrase is used. I don’t know anything about Steele’s family, but I’m willing to bet his favorite auntie called him after she read that and wondered why her “Boo” was talking like he had no home training or schooling.
A plea to all my fellow old-heads: stop with the bling talk! It’s embarrassing. Have a need to be cool and hip? Go buy a Buddy Guy album.
This is why I hate people. THey are so stupid. Why the need to talk slang around black people? Not every black person uses slang like that. IT’s stereotypical and rude. ANd this coming from a black man makes it even more worse. You are in a high position…why would you stereotype your own race like that?
Next week, Michael Steele will be wearing cubic zirconia earings!
Avoid beginning a sentence with a long introductory clause. This sentence:
“And while some might believe the language of what is happening now sounds cooler coming out of the mouth of Steele than Romney because the RNC chair has frizzier hair, they would be mistaken because Steele is not, and never has been, with it, cool, hip, down, gagnsta, or whatever phrase is used.”
can be changed to this:
“Some might believe the language of what is happening now sounds cooler coming from Steele than Romney because the RNC chair has frizzier hair. They would be mistaken because Steele is not, and never has been, with it, cool, hip, down, gangsta, or whatever phrase is used.”
The grammar cop strikes again!
Steele is just a token being used by the RNC but he doesn’t know it yet.
I wonder when Steele will wake up and realize that he is just a token in the RNC, even if he is now the head token. Repulicans only give lip service to African-Americans.