Not BtZ42: Misc. P flashback update. "Negro" to the scrapheap of History.

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Sun May 29 07:00:05 CDT 2016


*Barack Obama signed a bill which banned
<http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/president-obama-removes-oriental-and-negro-from-federal-law-a7041701.html>
the
words “oriental” and “negro” from being used in federal law, and the final
phase flew through the Senate this month.*

*"Mad Dog" Bertie from AtD. (i'm convinced his 'madness' is a good in AtD) *

*https://twitter.com/LettersOfNote/status/733019558404100096
<https://twitter.com/LettersOfNote/status/733019558404100096>*

>From an occasional Plist poster:
*Mark Wright* ‏@InkOnLinen  <https://twitter.com/InkOnLinen> Apr 7
<https://twitter.com/InkOnLinen/status/718222506667220993>

Read #GravitysRainbow <https://twitter.com/hashtag/GravitysRainbow?src=hash>
like sitting in a bathtub as it fills with information. Relax. Enjoy the
water on your toes. And don't cut yourself.


An aphorism akin to P's famous one? Yet I've never seen it before.

"The purpose of art is to lay bare the the questions hidden by the
answers." James Baldwin
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