As For [amiri] Baraka, He And I

Currently, U.s. Society Has Been Encouraged By Its Political And Subsidized Mass-media Intelligentsia To View U.s. Life As A Continual "morning In America" Paradise, Where The Only Social Problems Occur In The Inner Cities. Psychologists Call This Denial.

Hateful Material Travels The Globe. A Few Years Ago, Cnn, America's Der Sturmer, Ran A Story About Black Parents Being So Low Down That They Abandoned Their Children And The Children Had To Eat Rats. I Was At A University In Wisconsin At The Time And The Mother Of A Student From South Africa Called To See Whether The Story Was True. She Had Seen It All The Way Over There. The Story Was Untrue. The Children Lied. Cnn Never Corrected The Story.

Free Enterprise Is Not A Bad Idea And Has Produced Art.

I Use Non-fiction Work Written By Whites In My Research. It's Indispensable. That Wasn't The Problem. I Said That "the Wire" Was A Cliché! It's Like My Writing A Series About Jewish Life And Casting All Of The Characters As Inside Traders.

Writing Poetry Is The Hard Manual Labor Of The Imagination.