U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell got down the other night in Washington D.C. — or
thought he did — when he paid tribute to Warren Beatty at the Kennedy Center Honors with a
rap that went like this:
I’m Colin Luther Powell.
Public service is my thing.
Don’t do it for the
fame.
Don’t do it for the bling.
Harlem Globe Trottahs
Got nuthin’ on me.
Been everywhere
That a brutha
can be.
Been a soldier,
Brass stars on my shouldah,
Ran JCS an’ NSC,
Hung it up,
‘stablished a char-i-tee,
Came back into office as Secretar-ee.
And what comes aftah this
Y’all
jes’
Hafta wait an’ see.
Then, according to this report, he pounded his chest once and shouted to Beatty: “Representing, my bruthah!” Now we know why Colin Powell has had so little influence on foreign policy.
