Disaster averted
March 26th, 2008
Wow, we were only one brown person away from really pissing off Elton John.
Perhaps racist America was confused by the dreads? I thought for sure that the bright blue eyes would make a game of spot-the-white-guy fairly simple.
Popularity: 10% [?]
If it’s not obivious, I think the claims that American Idol is racist (like those of Elton and shpanky) are completely fucking ridiculous. Three (if Jordin isn’t white) of the seven winners are un-white, as the imminently sensible Jim Thome’s Self-Cleaning Oven (who could that be?) points out.
That’s either equal to or greater tha the percentage of Americans who are minorities.
Also, although I don’t think it was because he was black, Chikezie didn’t deserve to go home. It should have been Ramiele or Castro.