Saturday, October 15, 2011

9406: C’MON WHITE MAN! Episode 16.


(MultiCultClassics credits ESPN’s C’MON MAN! for sparking this semi-regular blog series.)

Donny Deutsch appeared on Friday’s Morning Joe to comment on Occupy Wall Street—and the douchebag ultimately demonstrated that Wall Street is not as dumb as Madison Avenue. Deutsch declared:

“You know what this movement needs? One is obvious, one not so obvious. Everybody is saying they need to clarify. They need policy issues… The other thing it needs and I don’t want this to come out the wrong way. Not needs but will happen. If you think back to the late ‘60s, what is the most stirring image of all of the rebellion that happened? What do we remember? Kent State. Now I’m not saying somebody has to get killed. What will happen, will there be a climax moment of class warfare somehow played out on screen that I think will, the same way 999 if you will kind of simplifies a message that articulates this clash so both the real clarification. We’re a visual society.”

Forget the ignorant insensitivity and historical inaccuracy (the Kent State shootings happened on May 4, 1970). What’s really appalling is Deutsch saying, “If you think back to the late ‘60s, what is the most stirring image of all of the rebellion that happened? What do we remember?” Um, how about the Civil Rights Movement and the assassinations of Malcolm X in 1965 and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968? Heaven forbid any events of the rebellious period might have produced images that would stick in Deutsch’s memory. Then again, the man did grow up privileged, as his children have too. And on Madison Avenue, privilege marches hand in hand with cultural cluelessness.

Congratulations, Donny, on your second appearance in this special series.

C’MON WHITE MAN!

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