Black...Hipsters? Please Explain!S  Black. Hipsters. Blipsters.
Is your brain leaking out of your ears, socioculturally
speaking, at the very idea? Who are they? Why are they?
Fortunately there's a new article that tries—and fails—to
provide answers:  Hipsters. They're everywhere. You've seen them
on skateboards, in the mall and at the club. You've seen them
shrugging dismissively in Oakland, Calif., Willamsburg, Brooklyn
and Austin, Tx. And, suddenly, in Barack Obama's Washington,
too.  Do you get a good sense of how this article is going to
go, now?  Hector is black. And these days, if you spend enough
time in Union Square in New York City, Gallery Place in
Washington or even Brick Lane in London, you know that there are
thousands more kids just like him-black, white and brown. What
gives?  Is there a real question here? Have we actually
established a premise? No? Okay I didn't think so either. Just
checking.  So just what is a black hipster-a "blipster" or "alt-
black"? Like many recent cultural trends, thi