January 19, 2010
The ACORNing of Wyclef Jean
I’m neither a conspiratorialist nor a coincidentalist. When something hugely damaging comes down on working families or poor people, I try not to automatically blame it on a corporate cartel or a right-wing plot. But I also reject the notion that s*** just happens, and so I habitually take Richard Pryor’s advice and “trust my lying eyes.” One of them blinked fairly wide open last week when a report that Wyclef Jean’s Yele Foundation had raised $1.5 in Twitter donations for Haiti relief was followed the next day by a Washington Post report alleging financial improprieties by the scrappy charity. (More)
