Eminem (was: Influenced by GR?)

[Terrance]

jporter wrote:

Still, the music is a bridge for him and his
> white (and asian and jewish) friends to understand and appreciate another
> facet of HIS American Culture, and, therefore, it is way, way more valuable
> and influential than Pynchon will ever be.  Pynchon is advanced technology
> for the elite- a manual for a post post POSTgrad seminar in control.
> 
> jody

Yeah, The Negro to the white intellectual is what is he has
always been, not a man, but a Myth. The Old Negro is a myth,
a creature of moral debate and historical controversy. I
have to laugh, two turntables and a microphone are now
legend in a dictionary of rap or some such, I remember one
turntable and microphone so does that make me cool or wigger
to a white intellectual, or is there another term, another
stock figure perpetuated by as an historical fiction without
the innocent sentimentalism, partly in deliberate
reactionism, attributed to the Negro. Yeah I put it on and
the Negro, he contributes to it too with his protective
social mimicry forced upon him, you know, by the adverse
circumstances of dependence. A formula, right, an equation,
like some compromise, not quite human: argued about,
condemned and defended, kept down in his place and lifted up
and empowered, worried about, and over, harassed and
patronized, a social burden, a social problem, a social
super fly on the wall of you conscience guilty with longing
to feel the rhythm of the Negro, the beat, the beat, boom,
can you here those big words dropped from the ivory tower
hit the streets. Yes, and the thinking negro, he got the
same J O B, same attitude, waste all his time on these
controversial issues, looking in the invisible mirror trying
to see himself from the empty perspective of a social point
of view, his shadow more real to him than his personality,
he's had to appeal from the unjust stereotypes of his
oppressors and traducers to those of his liberators, friends
and benefactors he has had to subscribe to the traditional
position from which his case has been viewed.  What
self-understanding or social truth can come from such a
situation? The Negro is become a "Vogue" again, partly as
the result of a growing interest in the new Jazz, folkways,
different spirits, partly as the result of the glamour and
notoriety brought to the new Harlem Renaissance by the same
old wealthy dilettantes who have taken it up as a sort of
amusing hobby.