Eminem (was: Influenced by GR?)

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>From: Paul Mackin <pmackin at clark.net>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Eminem (was: Influenced by GR?)
>Date: Mon, Jul 24, 2000, 8:07 PM
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> I remember well my own childhood discourse on the Negro question: It
> postulated a "fairness mechanism" by which the White children (like
> me) would be Black when they grew up; and White adults (like my
> parents) had been Black when they were children. It seemed the only
> possibly explanation.

Sounds a little bit like the 'Blue Eyes-Brown Eyes' discrimination
experiments and workshops developed by Jane Elliot:

http://www.magenta.nl/EyetoEye/indexe.html
http://www.magenta.nl/EyetoEye/contraste.html
http://www.urc.ukans.edu/News/Oread96/OreadFeb16/page2/newsbriefs.html

-- an excellent antidote against smug armchair critics who believe that
black people are myths and discrimination is all in the victim's mind ...

best