The color line hasn't shifted, exactly.This morning, as Edwards embraces Obama in the digitalized glare of the in-between, I shop for Nescafe and omega-juiced-up-eggs and find I am "seeing" a bizzaro "1rst and 10" virtual line of Consumer Culture Communication Device Creep Factor.
On one side of the line, we have, of course, the "Mahogany" line. On the other, well, we have "Sassy, FUN, Quirky"--not a line per se. But, well, of course, that makes a world of sense. It's just "Hallmark". But, sassy! . . . aye. (please, someone help me rescue that word)
I was hungry this morning. Rushed. Thus the "need it now" fake-Euro-java. But the cartoon OJ Simpson hangin' on the border on the Sassy Side of things, tellin' me he would have stolen the card for my birthday, "but," made me see the line. And suddenly, there it was. I saw it. Like a bad "secret shopper," I had to take a snap shot of my sudden cardiac-culture-snark. I saw it. And so often, we try so hard, to see not to see. And the Obama-esque sound bites tell us it's not about race in his race when he tells us we're still messed up about the race in the race; and we want it otherwise (or don't. . .hello Kentucky); and we want it now. As I say, I was rushed so you don't see that four doors down from the Simpson Snark-fest is an Obama b-day card, callin' out the b-day politico fun. Interesting neighbors. But hey, I got my eggs; I got my instant-fake-o-Euro-java, and I got the picture.
