WHY BOB DYLAN DID NOT DESERVE THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE

By AJ Weberman

There is no denying that Bob Dylan is a poet and a great one at that. He can
compose poems that can take years to understand and he wrote the poetic novel
Tarantula that will probably never be understood. His form is pure genius and his
music never ceases to amuse from folk rock to Frank Sinatra. Then why does this
researcher, the inventor of the word Dylanology, believe he is unworthy of this
award?

Because after decades of research I have come to the conclusion that he

subcontent of Dylan poems are racist. For example this is a verse from his most
popular hit Like A Rolling Stone.

“You used to ride” you used to allow to continue without interference, you used
to support “on the chrome horse” candidates who supported regimes that
practiced apartheid (South Africa is the world’s biggest producer of chrome) “with
your diplomat” and your government had diplomatic relations with them while
the South Africans “carried on his shoulder” shouldered a burden, the White
Man’s Burden of having to uplift inferior races and cultures such as “a Siamese” a
closely connected or very similar; twin “cat” slang for a Black man, the South
Africans also have to deal with the burden of living with African-Americans “Ain't
it hard when you discovered that” ain’t it hard for Whites to really believe “He
really wasn't where it's at” that apartheid was an evil system and was worthy of
economic and political sanctions “After he took from you everything he could
steal” after you learned that apartheid was “stolen” from Jim Crow a practice that
originated with Whites in America. “Steal” to use, appropriate, or preempt the
use of another's idea. In other words, apartheid is as American as apple pie.

So there you have it. I rest my case.