The Influence of Pynchon's Paranoia or Postulations for Paranoid

[rich]

Except you seem to be misreading her point about
how that deadly attack impacts not only the people who  live near
those who are murdered and, those who love them and/or share a
cultural and national identity with them, or at least enjoy the same
liberties and freedoms as the murdered victims, but also those who
live far, far away . . .
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that's the problem--its a shallow argument, and painfully obvious.

We are obliged to Scout; to see the World from
inside another man's skin. Otherwise, we just gonna kill off all the
Mockingbirds and sit around making up gothic tales about a Man we
think is a Ghost. We gotta go to the Black Church. We gotta sit up
there with the Black Folk during the Trial.
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like those Weathermen folks pontificating in the ghettos for the black
man? many blacks thought they were crazy. the Black church? one of the
most homophobic and conservative institutions in this country? things
are complicated
Talking for myself, I don't pretend to understand how it is for blacks
who are the victims of injustice or racism (Black Folk is too broad a
brush), how they feel. I'm not that arrogant. I sure will not attempt
to speak for them. I'm not that naive.

rich