We're Talking About Gifts?

To say nothing of the fact that a signed songbook by Rodgers and Hammerstein is fairly priceless, I really don't see the point of nervous ninnies commenting on what one person in power gives another person in power as a token. This is a factor in anyone's life how?

And yes, I do think there's a larger meme of "the nouveau-riche black guy doesn't know etiquette" at work here.