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Kanye West vs. White Mediocrity

Picture: Kanye West grabs the microphone from Taylor Swift at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards courtesy Photo Giddy/flickr Arthur Chu - There was a lot to criticize about the “Saturday Night Live” 40th anniversary celebration–Jerry Seinfeld’s #SorryNotSorry joshing around about “SNL’s” 40-year history of whiteness, cringeworthy reminders of the show’s tendency to run dubiously funny gags into the ground, and the mystifying continued relevance of Sarah Palin. So it was strange–though not surprising, for Internet junkies–that Kanye West came in for an avalanche of...