This time around, I don’t think I’ll be able to give our next candidate quite the respect and time it deserves.

It is the most important film about race in America made yet in this young century.

And perhaps I will return to it in the future in even more depth, because it certainly deserves it.

Of course, I’m taking about Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle.

Consider this the Cliff’s Notes - my short, simple attempt at tackling this cultural touchstone. And of course you choose to use the Cliff’s Notes, because you fail to understand how the competitive landscape of being young in America actually works.

Or perhaps because you know it all too well.

Learn more about that greatest story of the 2000s, the rise of Asia and the Asian-American, and what this remarkable little comedy has to say about it, after the jump –

According to Wikipedia, on August 30, 2006, Pharrell Williams himself said on BET that the new song he’d produced would not only show off his gangsta side, but also tackle the issue of racial conflict in Los Angeles between African Americans and Hispanics and call for racial unity.

The song he was talking about was “Vato,” by Snoop Dogg featuring B-Real (the guy with the nasally voice from Cypress Hill) as the voice of the Hispanic community. Observe and enjoy.

Does the song deliver? The answer, right here –