Meditations on Unofficial

March 3rd, 2006 | by aobaoill |

Coming home from campus this afternoon I passed a student wearing a ‘Greenday’ t-shirt with American Idiot stamped across it.
Earlier this week in class I showed my students Spike Lee’s Bamboozled which has a scene where Delacroix fantasizes about jumping on top of his bigoted boss, and slapping him repeatedly across the face while yelling “Whitey! Whitey! Whitey!” (in response to the boss’s repeated gratuitous use of the N-word).
Which of these better illustrates my mood today? Those who are unclear what I’m talking about can check my earlier posts about Unofficial St. Patrick’s Day, or the Daily Illini articles from yesterday.

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