Watts article

[Dave Monroe]

Not "meant to be" anything.  I was thinking, that
white appropriation of "negro" hipness and
authenticity.  MalignD posted some examples ...

--- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 06:08, jbor wrote:
> 
> > I'd be interested to hear what, precisely, the
> > relationship between the 'Watts' article and
> > Mailer's 'The White Negro' is meant to be. 
> 
> Don't know what Dave was necessarily thinking but I
> had in mind something like this quick quote:
> 
>  "Hated from outside and therefore hating himself,
> the Negro was forced into the position of exploring
> all those moral wildernesses of civilized
> life which the Square automatically condemns as
> delinquent or evil or
> immature or morbid or self-destructive or corrupt." 
> 
> Living outside the law
> 
> Ripping off the system
> 
> To boot, a model for the white would be
> revolutionary
> 
> Now I'm going sailing before another hurricane
> strikes.
> 
> 
> 
> 



		
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