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JUST CURIOUS: Is That Where Kanye Has Been Hiding?

Written by Jonathan Pitts-Wiley on December 21, 2009 1:55 pm

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Because of the above picture, my buddy The Black Snob is just now regaining feeling in the left side of her face.

As I look at it, all I can think is: Kanye’s not that swoll.

That’s about it.

Far be it from me to disavow allegiance to calling out f*ckery–I make a living of it frankly and will probably snap about something or other in ten to fifteen minutes–but this just doesn’t bother me. It’s not that I don’t like it or will spend time defending it; it’s that I don’t really care.

Maybe it’s just me, but I think 2009 is the Year of Submission. Not submission in that people agreed to whatever was going on–the year started with The March on Washington II, transitioned into people acting a donkey at town halls and will end with people getting lumped up in Copenhagen–but rather a year in which things topped each other to the degree that, after a certain point, you just sort of shrugged and say “OK.”

This was a year that had no ceiling and apparently isn’t winding down. Stuff will continue going down until 11:59 on the 31st. Count on it.

Michael Jackson, along with every celebrity ever died, a dude shot up a military base and a serial killer’s bodies stunk up a neighborhood. And a cop shot Oscar Grant in the back on the BART platform. And the president was compared to Hitler daily. Tiger had sex with one out of every three cocktail waitresses in the United States.

Perhaps this pic has been brought to my attention far too late. As of December 21st, I can’t muster the strength to even kind of speculate as to why Dave LaChapelle wanted to make this happen. Nor can I speculate as to why Kanye wanted to carry a naked Lady Gaga, doing her best airbrushed blonde bombshell,  out of the jungle looking like a zombie Indiana Jones who spends his free time doing crunches in the antiquities wings of Egyptian museums.

I just don’t know. And I care less than I know.

So to this photo I say: OK. #KanyeShrug

What do you guys think? Is this offensive? Is the whole jungle, black/white situation curious? Sound off!

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/soveu34/ soveu34

    Well atleast he got a six pack and I dont mean a six pack of henessy lmaoooo

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Rhymz/ Rhymz

    I ain’t know Hennessy came in six packs…

    Then again I don’t drink… So why would I?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Yay0202/ Yay0202

    I think kanye wants heroics. Indiana Jones went into the deepest and darkest places and I came out with the girl. He obviously has a broken heart and needs a girl in his life.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/honey_brown_79/ honey_brown_79

    this is too funny but i rescently saw new pics of him shirtless and he has been hitting the wieght ( idk about this hard LOL)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SHABLAAAM/ SHABLAAAM

    IM SICK OF THIS S**T I REALLY AM.
    everyone wants to pin that all black men love white women . We dont I dont Id much prefer a classy smart black women with her stuff together over any female.
    There just a disposition for black men and women to not get along all the time and it derives from slavery, It also is contributed from single parent homes.
    SO EVERYONE LOOK UP WILLIE LYNCH LETTER.

    For everyone to understand.
    if a black women is left to raise her daughter ,without a fater figure in the house hold, not always but 9 times out of ten the mother raises her daughter with her animosity towards black men. She practically grows up hating black men based off what she learned from her mothers problems or frustrations, and the cycle perpetuates .

    To put an end too all this, and this goes out to everyone,
    IF YOU HAVE A BAD RELATIONSHIP:
    its important that you learn from a bad relationship, and more important not to generalize the issue you delt with. Ex black chick cheats on me. No I tell everyone I hate black women(generalizing) because they all cheat. DO NOT DO THINGS LIKE THIS!

    all if becomes is baggage that you carry from one relationship to the next. Instead you should insist on improving the people you date or locations you meet them ect… Give each new person you date the benifit of the doubt.
    Only judg based off that persons actions. So if they cheat, dont generalize, come to the realization that, that person has cheated, drop em, and move on. But if you get cheated on once, then you forgive then, then again ,and again, you cant blame anyone but your self For dealing with that person allowing your self to get hurt.

    I digressed a lil But basically I just wanna see more black unity between black men and women, because theres a civil war going on between the two that need to stop.

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