Eminem (was: Influenced by GR?)

[Paul Mackin]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, jbor wrote:

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

In a way it was, except my fantasies of two thirds of a century ago 
called upon a childish trust in magic to reverse the eye colors in
midstream so to speak. 

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