That refusal may be part of the politic here. And those who are upset that Lamar won’t stay in his lane as a great technical rapper are in a sense doing the same thing. Yet when Obama does invite Common to the White House, or perhaps when I label Kendrick Lamar as a poet, that is also an act of containment, of domestication, of pimping the butterfly. Because, the subtext clearly went, only a black president would debase poetry (which Fox News of course holds so sacred) by including rap in it. And while the other radical poets tied themselves in knots over whether that made Goldsmith a political sellout, the real action was over on Fox News, where they were raising hell because Common was also on the bill. ![]() Kenneth Goldsmith himself was invited by President Obama to the White House a couple of years ago, for a day of poetry appreciation.
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