"Oh, stewardess, I speak Jive!"  That line from the movie Airplane! is well-known to many.  A pair of African-American (or, in those days, simply black) gentlemen are talking in stereotypical black street language, and they make it so convoluted that it sounded like a foreign language.  When one of them gets sick and the stewardess can't "dig their rap," a little old lady volunteers to speak to them in jive. Flash-forward to 2015, and Ben Carson is doing much the same thing.  Ben Carson is reaching out to black voters with an unusually terrible-sounding rap song.  I say unusually terrible because while, musically speaking, most rap sounds bad, this somehow sounds even worse. A loud, aggressive, in-your-face voice yells "Vote!  Vote!  Inspire!  Vote Ben Carson for president – he would be awesome!" while a flute plays distinctly off key over and over again.  Carson culturally soils himself while...(Read Full Post)