I’m a (Race) Hustler Baby
I’m a hustler baby, I’m a hustler
I just want you to know, wanna let you know
It ain’t where I been, it ain’t where I been
But where I’m ’bout to go, top of the world!
The race hustlers can almost taste it now—Obama at the top of the world. And now Spike Lee, Maxine Waters, Jeremiah Wright, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, et al. are joined by a new hustler-wannabe—Howard Dean. Yes, the Dean of scream. Yaaaaaaaaaaah! Whether he made a Freudian slip or not last week, Dean reminded me of the pathetic, race-confused “Raji” as played by Vince Vaughn in the movie “Be Cool.” In an NPR interview, Dean was asked about the shifting demographics in the U.S. and responded: “And if you look at folks of color, even women, they’re more successful in the Democratic Party than they are in the white, excuse me, than in the Republican Party….”