Roderick Reilly
2008-07-01 13:17:20
Will Smith is supposed to have made some depraved statements about 9/11 to the effect that it “was no concern of black folks.”
At the risk of being labeled a racist, I join the many millions of Americans who are sick and tired of so many high-profile, fabulously successful African-Americans talking about America as if it was 1930s Alabama. Also, the proportion of disaffected African-Americans who are benefitting just fine from this country is dismayingly high.
As to celebrities in general, they need to be told that their primary purpose in life is to alleviate the boredom of the rest of us who choose to pay attention to what it is they are being payed too much money to do. They are jugglers, mountebacks and sword-swallowers, nothing more.
