I recently read about how early-arriving Olympic contestants in Brazil are complaining about the condition of the waters they train by and in--oil slicks, the odd body part, mosquitoes, "superbugs" and such--picky, picky, picky. It struck me how opposed to the spirit of multiculturalism such provincial and benighted attitudes are -- how xenophobic, how paternalistic, how...white.
Which led me to think about Kanye West's recent request that Rolling Stone, The New York Times, and other "white" publications stop commenting on black music. Right on Kanye!