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I Used To Be A Discipline Problem, Which Caused Me Embarrassment Until I Realized That Being A Discipline Problem In A Racist Society Is Sometimes An Honor.

How Does The [new York] Times Treat White Pathology? They Reported An Epidemic Of Heroin Addiction In The Philadelphia Suburbs. Which Included Emergency Admissions And Overdoses; These White People In The Suburbs Were Doing Heroin Like It Was Going Out Of Style. I Counted The Words: The Article Consisted Of 200 Words. "heroin Epidemic" In The Back Section. Out Here In California, The Typical Drug Addict Is A Housewife Or Suburban White Woman.

Howard University Holds Something Called "heart's Day," An All Day Ceremony In Which A Writer Is Honored. I Was The Recipient Of This Honor. It's A Wonderful Ceremony That Eleanor Traylor Chair Of English At Howard University Organizes For Writers. Writers From Around The Country Came To Pay Tribute To My Work. It Was Very Flattering.

If The British Prose Style Is Churchillian, America Is The Tobacco Auctioneer, The Barker; Runyon, Lardner, W.w., The Traveling Salesman Who Can Sell The World The Brooklyn Bridge Every Day, Can Put Anything Over On You And Convince You That Tomatoes Grow At The South Pole.

[david] Mamet Is Another Hypocrite. His Idea Of Black Man Is A Pimp Who Abuses Women, [edmond], Yet His Play Oleanna [1994] Ends With A White Professor Slapping An Uppity Feminist, At Least The Version I Saw At San Francisco's Act.