GRGR(4): "I Wanna Be Black" (PLAYLIST ADDITION)

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

"(...) up through the smelly water, comes the sound of a of a whole dark gang of 
awful Negroes come yelling happily into the white men's room, (...)" (p. 64)


The ethnic ambivalence here like in this episode in general reminds me of Lou 
Reed's "I wanna be black". An expressive live-version of that song can be heard 
on "Take No Prisoners" (1978), - here are the lyrics:



                   I WANNA BE BLACK 


                   I wanna be black
                   Have natural rhythm
                   Shoot twenty feet of jism, too
                   and fuck up the Jews
                   I wanna be black
                   I wanna be a Panther
                   Have a girlfriend named Samantha
                   And have a stable of foxy whores 
                   Oh I wanna be black
                   I don't wanna be a fucked up, middle class, college student
                   anymore
                   I just want to have a stable of foxy little whores
                   Yeah, yeah I wanna be black

                   I wanna be black 
                   I wanna be like Martin Luther King
                   and get myself shot in spring
                   And lead a whole generation too
                   And fuck up the Jews

                   I wanna be black, I wanna be like Malcom X
                   and cast a hex over President Kennedy's tomb
                   And have a big prick, too

                   I don't wanna be a fucked up, middle class, college student
                   anymore

                   I just wanna have a stable of foxy little whores
                   Yeah, yeah I wanna be black 

                   
                     (Lou Reed)