However...
1)...just because something is true doesn't necessarily mean it needs to be spoken aloud.
2)...just because something needs to be said doesn't mean NOW is the time to say it.
Kayne gave a classic example of the difference between intelligence and wisdom, between passionate exuberance and driven focus.
I believe much of what he said was true.
I share the pain and anger he was expressing.
However, rather than proving what a sell out he wasn't, what he SHOULD have been doing was saying whatever it was that he (and others who make a living figuring these things out, hence the reason for prepared scripts) thought needed topbe said in order to get more people to write larger checks.
THAT would be the thing that would help - short term - the people he (and I) are heartbroken about.
His political / social discourse at best might change the minds a few people who might make minor steps in doing what they can to influence our political construct and society in general in hopes of changing the future of how race and class divides us, and how a few can show such utter disregard for so many.
That doesn't do shit for those people in New Orleans right now.
What that motherfucker should had done was swallowed his goddamn pride and asked people for their money. As his mouth opened and closed you could hear the checkbooks of the middle america blue collar whites closing - people who might have been thinking prior to his rant "you know, those are hard working regular plain everyday people just trying to get by, just like me. And they caught a fucking bad break. Fuck, I got $20 I can send...I can drink generic beer for a couple months". Instead, many of them were left thinking, "there is another Black man blaming their plight on the government and white people".
Are they right to think this. No. But they are limited by their ignorance and circumstances. They cannot be blamed for that.
Was Kayne correct in what he was saying? For the most part, yes.
BUT IT WASN'T ABOUT THAT. There would be a time and place - later - for political discourse.
In the end, what he did was selfish and self-indulgent. It reflected the actions of a man who was thinking of what he wanted to do, but not thinking of what the consequences would be.
And in the end, given that rather than being heard he was instead dismissed because the inappropriateness of his remarks canceled any relevance they might have to anyone who needed to hear them (I certainly didn't need to hear them...he wasn't telling ME anything I didn't know), what he did was of no value at all.
Stupid. Really, really stupid.
