GRGR 31 Shit'n'Shinola

Terrance Lycidas at worldnet.att.net
Sat Jul 29 21:08:00 CDT 2000



jobber wrote:
> 
> ----------
> >From: Terrance <Lycidas at worldnet.att.net>
> 
> > Red Malcolm (a parody of Malcolm X,
> 
> Yes, "Red Malcolm the Unthinkable Nihilist".(64.31) Malcolm X, yes, but
> "parody"?
> 
> > Red Malcolm (a parody of Malcolm X,
> > when he had a "slave"
> 
> Correction (I assume): when he *was* a "slave". (If you're going to try to
> slam Foucault for "sloppy" scholarship and stereotype teachers of African
> history as "so-called scholars" with poor editors then I think the least you
> could be doing is reading over your own texts and making sure that they make
> sense before you hit the send button!)
> 

Oh, so sorry, you did it again. 

A "Slave" is a J O B--that's  Jay- OH- Bee, as in
employment. 

"You mean you just want any slave you can find?" AMX.46 

Red gets a slave from Shorty, he takes a job as a shoe shine
boy at the Roseland State Ballroom. See The Autobiography of
Malcolm X by Alex Haley.



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