Kanye West: Protest Impact Impaired by Really Big Sunglasses, Doofus Quotient.

It turns out that Kanye West of “George Bush Hates Black People” fame is coming

Zack de la Rocha teams up with Kanye West to protest Arizona...even though Zack dreams of forcibly removing Kanye from his mansion and giving it to "the people of the sun."

out with a brand new album, but the same old stupidity is on display with his decision to join Sound Strike—a musical boycott of Arizona over its new immigration law.

Sound Strike has been put together by Zack de la Roca. You might know him from Rage Against the Machine, a band that churned out hard rock albums with an Aztlán-twist:

With their borders and boots on top of us
Pullin’ knobs on the floor of their toxic metropolis
So how you gonna get what you need ta get?
The gut eaters, drenched get offensive like that
When the fifth sun sets get back reclaim
The spirit of Cuahtemoc alive an untamed
Now face the funk now blastin’ out ya
The vulture tried to steal your name but now you got a gun
Ya this is for the people of the sun

Its comin’ back around again
This is for the people of the sun
Its comin’ back around again

Something tells me that in de la Rocha’s perfect world, guys like Kanye have their LA mansions confiscated and handed over to their “rightful” owners…(which doesn’t include successful black rappers, Sonic Youth, or most of the other artists taking part in moral pedestal back-patting boycotts).

I’ve talked about Arizona’s immigration bill at length, and sometimes it even pains me to do it. No fair-minded person can say that I’m an ideologue on the subject. But it’s laughable to me that de la Rocha, a guy whose true feelings on the issue would repulse most Americans, is trying to pass himself off as a voice of reason.

And it’s even more ridiculous that Kanye West, after further solidifying his place in the hallowed halls of musically-talented jackasses throughout history with the Taylor Swift fiasco, would have the nerve to cast himself as the arbiter of what’s acceptable and what deserves a boycott when it comes to anything.

Hey Kanye, shouldn’t you be locked in your room contemplating conspiracy theories about the government concocting AIDS to kill people?

Before you ask me to get a job today, can I at least get a raise on a minimum wage?/And I know the government administered AIDS/
So I guess we just pray like the minister say/ Allah o Akbar and throw em some hot cars…

I heard em say you had a single that just dropped. Power, I believe it’s called:

No one man should have all that power…The clocks ticking I just count the hours/Stop tripping, I’m tripping off the powder/’Till then [F] that, the world’s ours…they say I was the abomination of Obama’s nation…

You’re right, Kanye. That’s why it surprises me that you voted for Obama with the same fervor that produces Woody Allen dictatorship dreams and George Lopez mean streaks. Oh, wait, you were on “powder.” I guess you have something in common with Billie Joe Gravity Bong of Green Day…

I’ll see you at the BP Oil Relief Concert for the fisherman affected by the environmental disaster. And I fully expect you to take part in a mumbling, stumbling, trembling diatribe like you did with Bush during Hurricane Katrina. I won’t hold my breath though because we all know it’s Reagan’s fault (at least, that’s what the liberals who find my blog are typing into search engines…)

You don’t have power, Kanye…unless power is measured by the pairs of really big sunglasses you own. And you don’t have influence…unless influence is measured in non-voters who spend their time on Youtube defending you over your latest unforced error public embarrassment.