I Wanna be Black (was:Eminem (was: Influenced by GR?))

[David Morris]

>From: Terrance

I remember this thread from a while back when er were reading Vineland.  
Didn't Lou Reed do this song?

>Yeah, The Negro to the white intellectual is what is he has always been, 
>not a man, but a Myth.

Yes, for many reasons, not the least of which is FEAR.  Black Karma is gunna 
get you.

The following, even snipped, is so over-the-top that I have to express my 
admiration for the balls it took to post this.  All I can say in rsponse is 
that it takes a stereotypist to see a stereotypist.  Myth and Pynchon freely 
use this powerful tool.

Also, I have to say that the Lord Jimism and white-man's burden perspective 
inherent in Terrance's post denies the fact that dem negroes got two balls 
and a (much-bigger-than-yours) dick....

>The Old Negro is a myth, a creature of moral debate and historical 
>controversy. [snip] 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, 
>[...] 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.

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