P's Parents and the Parents in "yhe Secret Integration and Ernie in BE too

[ish mailian]

This is what Ernie does to his kids and that's why I consider him a fool.

On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 1:40 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
> So recently a thread about P's parents repeated the same old slaner
> about his mother and father, the same old stupid gossip heard decades
> ago about how his mom, a catholic,  hated Jews and how she drank and
> how his old man was a Nassau county conservative and how he may have
> come to forgive them their politics, good church going boy that he was
> and all.
>
> But the fiction does deal in parents and in kids a lot. Not just the
> so-called family stage of his career but all of it. And one common
> enough theme is how the parents try to impose their political
> ideologies on their kids throug education and books and media. And the
> treatment of young minds as childish, and the treatment of Blacks and
> Others as Objects, as Problems, as pawns in the game.
>
> I mentioned this TSI essay, a damn fine essay on the subject so here
> is the citation.
>
> Boulter, Joe. "Children and Slaves in the West: Imagining Fraternity
> Among Outlaws in 'The Secret Integration'."Oklahoma City University
> Law Review 24.3 (Fall 1999): 518-533.
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