Land of Opportunity

One melodic voice in the complex polyphony of the “OWS” uprising is the lament of the young college grads who, despite their hard-earned degrees in important fields of study, today find themselves laden with scholastic debt and unable to descry a clear path to prosperity. It’s terribly unfair: they’ve done what they were supposed to do, but the System, which is blatantly rigged against “the 99%” in favor of an entrenched plutocracy, has failed them.

They demand Social Justice, by any means necessary.

Meanwhile, a fellow by the name of Shawn Carter — a young black man who, abandoned by his father, was raised in a housing project in one of the worst inner-city districts in the country, dropped out of high school to pursue an interest in rap music, and who is now better known as the music- and fashion-industry mogul ‘Jay-Z’, husband of the R&B siren Beyoncé — will be selling “Occupy Wall Street”-themed t-shirts.

Mr Carter will be keeping the proceeds. He is worth an estimated $450 million.

The “moral of the story”? As Satchmo famously said: “Man, if you have to ask, you’ll never know.”

3 Comments

  1. Dom says

    Did you see this article:

    http://www.thenation.com/article/164348/audacity-occupy-wall-street?page=full

    The guy owes 35K because of a degree in … puppetry!

    Posted November 12, 2011 at 4:44 pm | Permalink
  2. A degree in puberty! Good Lord! What’s becoming of our universities. Can’t they just let nature run its course? As if boys need instruction in how to manipulate their little manikins! Who needs a degree in puberty? Why . . . what’s that? Puppetry? Oh. Never mind . . .

    Jeffery Hodges

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    Posted November 12, 2011 at 5:01 pm | Permalink
  3. Dom says

    Since I got this post to bring up The Nation, has anyone else notices just how bad that magazine is? I was never on the left, but at one time it was a serious opinion paper that could stir your thoughts. They published Hitchens, and they had the best cross-word in the country. Now? That nonsense about puppetry, and worse yet, this, from the only person alive who still knows nothing about capitalism:

    http://www.thenation.com/signupad/164497?destination=article/164497/capitalism-vs-climate

    Posted November 14, 2011 at 2:05 pm | Permalink

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