Sadly Kanye West has fallen for one of the most pernicious myths of our era, that supporting a rich, racist bloke is actually a really radical way of thinking.
Tweets began flooding in when the unidentified woman interjected during the panel show, telling the audience that Ukip are "rich and racist" in a scathing attack on the party.
Hundreds of people had taken over a long stretch of sidewalk outside Grand Central Terminal; they had come out with groups like Black Lives Matter and Fight for 15 to protest Trump as a "racist tool of the rich," according to a sign billowing behind Harris.
When a rich white racist slaps Mr. Poitier, and Mr. Poitier slaps the arrogant massa right back, it's preachy, but it's also awfully satisfying to see Mr. Poitier behaving less than nobly, uncoiling, even for a moment, the power he usually holds in reserve.
Instead, travelling makes me racist about people from rich countries.
Instead, traveling makes me racist about people from rich countries.
He also challenges the film for presenting Chávez's supporters as "invariably poor, brown-skinned, and cheerful" and the opposition as "rich, white, racist, and violent".
Many of those I meet had grandparents who fled the cotton fields of the segregated South to work in factories in the richer, less racist North.
