Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Ta-Nehisi Coates completes misses the point of Little Zangief

The Disappointing Taste of Revenge

Disappointing you say? Nonsense, it is one of the most satisfying videos ever made.

That kid--the aggressive one--was out of his head, and there was no one to put the right kind of hands on him.

Out of his head? I think not. He seemed the model of the preening bully, fully in control. And hands were put on him, of a most effective kind.

And now he's famous.

And rightly so, as he is now world famous as The Rat, a celebrity manufactured of his own making (it was the Rat and Co. doing the video recording that day).

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