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[S.R. Prozak]

> Malign is just peddling more of the insulting,
> demeaning views of African-American culture that
> he/she has written here in the past.

Assimilationism is always demeaning.

So is cosmopolitanism, which insists we all be forced to be like one another through "culture."

I am in favor of black Nationalism as I am in favor of every other race being Nationalistic.

One of Pynchon's enduring rejoinders is not to trust the International among us.

Of course, this puts us here:

Nationalists/Conservatives

versus

Internationalists/Liberals

So it'll be unpopular on this list but, the position that grants black people the most respect is one that acknowledges their independence as a culture.

No matter what the east coast wankers say.

> If writers like
> Hurston, Ellison, etc. had followed the kinds of
> prescriptions and proscriptions offered by the likes
> of Malign, they wouldn't have produced works that
> demonstrate the beauty and power of their so-called
> "non-standard English", instead they would have
> listened to unimaginative grammar teachers and wrung
> the idiosyncratic magic out of their prose.

Same with Faulkner, Joyce, and Pynchon!


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