GRGR 31 Shit'n'Shinola (is Re: Eminem (was: Influenced by GR?)

[jbor]

jody:
> 
>  I don't think Pynchon's work in GR or M&D would be as effective and thought
> provoking if it were merely a diatribe against "white suprematism." It's
> just not that simple- which is not to deny racism, by any means.
>

   ... Shit, now, is the color white folks are afraid of. Shit is the
   presence of death, not some abstract-arty character with a scythe but
   the stiff and rotting corpse itself inside the whiteman's warm and
   private own *asshole*, which is getting pretty intimate. That's what that
   white toilet's for. You see many brown toilets? Nope, toilet's the color
   of gravestones, classical columns of mausoleums, that white porcelain's
   the very emblem of Odorless and Official Daeth. Shinola shoeshine polish
   happens to be the color of Shit. Shoeshine boy Malcolm's in the toilet
   slappin' on the Shinola, working off whiteman's penance on his sin of
   being born the color of Shit'n'Shinola. ... (688)


No character-narrator here, no apologies either. He's talkin' to you, white
boy (and me too). Deal with it.

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