We don’t do “trifling celebrity news” here at Urban Intellectuals except as a social experiment of sorts from time to time, or if a celebrity does something that has clear and lasting social impact – be it to the good or the bad side of the equation.

But Nick…Nick…Nick…tsk, tsk.

Two million dollar diamond-glued-on shoes? Seriously?

Not only are certain media influences now calling him a “former disciple of Mariah Carey” rather than her estranged or soon-to-be ex-husband, but now he shows up in full view of a world full of people who are becoming more socially conscious and environmentally sensitive by the day, sporting a pair of two million dollar diamond-laden shoes that he either bought or that were “on loan” to him.

As if he has no earthly clue of the stories behind those diamond mines and/or of the fact that if white Europeans weren’t over-bloating the actual value of those diamonds…wearing a pair of shoes with some shiny cutting tools cut and pasted all over them is plain nig-norant.

Nick and His Killer European Shoes. What was he thinking?!

This is not about jealousy or “hating on” Cannon by any stretch of the imagination, this is about the reason why a Black man would flaunt a representative symbol of European violence and the social construct of centuries of man-made poverty for the whole world to see, and smile about it as if he’s actually proud? What an example for his twins, huh?

First of all, this kind of display of gauche richness is so late 1980s and 1990s that it’s a socially unpopular.

But to top it all off, a man of Cannon’s character who doesn’t spend a lot of time in the news making an idiot of himself except for a few hits and misses here and there, that move was not only out of touch (or at least it should have been), but it was a supreme insult to anyone with an intelligent enough mind to know the nature of that kind of “bling” and the social injustice it represents all over Africa and around the world.

It represents a shiny rock used for a primitive cutting tool that was unrighteously “owned” by some folks to whom it didn’t belong. They then sucked the mineral resources from a land filled with African people who indigenously owned them, but then further caused them to be impoverished and without basic necessities to even toil in those mines. These people were, and still are in some places, put into slavery and violent bloody conflict labor in order to turn their own “shiny rocks” over to some white folks for them to sell at a price that never should have been placed on them in the first place.

Nick could do himself and the world a favor.

Take those danged slave/murder shoes off his feet, sell them and go into those diamond slave labor camps and make certain no one who works is without a real home, not a concentration camp tent city; decent clothing, good food, clean and fresh air and water, plenty of space to procreate and build their own families, and lots of space in which to live, work, and play just like their diamond-wielding Massas — AND demand a pay rate of $25-35/hr USD PLUS benefits.

It’s hard translating Nick Cannon from a decent man with some salty high-profile troubles from time to time to a high-classed street hustler and 1960s model white man’s pimp in my mind, but that move alone may have done the trick.

He can do whatever he wants to with his fame and his money, but this is:

The End.

Pimp Daddy White: “He’s a Hustler Baby”: All the Black Buck the White Kingdom Ever Made Him to Be. All he needs to complete this outfit is Nick Cannon’s shoes.