"Image is everything"

The Oscars were announced or shown or whatever they do...I will pause here so we can all yawn our interest....but despite their irrelevance and stupidity, some interesting stuff comes out of them.
For instance, the song "It's hard out here for a Pimp" won the Oscar for something. I suppose I could look it up if I really cared, but lets face it...the important awards for music aren't Oscars, they are Emmys or Soapys or Grammies or Grampies or something...who wins awards is, as you may have guessed, of vital importance to me in selecting what to listen to and helping me realize what I enjoy...so their win was pretty important for, and here is one of the classiest names for a music group in ages, a name so inspiring I want to listen to them and nobody else for the rest of my life since with a name like this they can be nothing but inspirational, the Three 6 Mafia.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, in a year in which movies in conjection included themes of prostitution...err, female empowerment through sexual abilities (Memoirs of a Geisha), the acceptance or lack thereof regarding homosexuality in teststerone based arenas (Brokeback Mountain), racism both explicit and conscious and implicit and subconscious (Crash), oh, and giant apes loving tiny women as a metaphor for exploitation (King Kong) the thing causing the most buzz is a song that probably most of us never heard since the movie it came from, Hustle and Flow, was seen by almost as many people as watched the International Championship of Rock Paper Scissors (or, as it is known in Iraq, with what can I kill my fellow Muslim with today).
Young people are referenced for their blog in which they discuss goings on of "African Americans". http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/06/AR2006030601461.html
I have never made a secret of how I feel about such divisiveness. I will not call you a Mexican American, a Irish American, or any other hybrid...the sole exception being a phrase I often use, Native American which I admit also has its holes. However, until their citizenship is resolved (did you know that, even today, not all tribes are fully recognized as citizens? Yes, they are subject to the laws but don't have all the rights.) I will continue to use that term....because in their case, it is actually accurate.
But I refuse otherwise to use offensive terms that celebrate divisiveness. Don't believe it does? Read the article. Hear Juaquin Jessup say, "There are more important things in our culture..." Do you hear the unity there?
Funny that the young heroines would say, "Image is everything, and we have to be so careful about the way we position ourselves in front of larger audiences." Yeah, image IS everything. Substance is nothing. I am glad we are figuring that out.

note: somewhere in that last line you might, if you look carefully, detect just a hint of sarcasm.