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My Work Holds Up The Mirror To Hypocrisy, Which Puts Me In A Tradition Of American Writing That Reaches Back To Nathaniel Hawthorne.

The Treatment Of African And African American Culture In Our Education Was No Different From Their Treatment In Tarzan Movies.

As For [amiri] Baraka, He And I Have Disagreements. I Mean, He Becomes A Demagogue When There's An Audience. He's A Nice Guy In Private. I Mean I Like The Guy; He's A Terrific Writer. I've Published Two Of His Books. Baraka Is One Of These Fundamentalists Who Is Prone To Idol Worship.

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.

I Was Challenged To A Fistfight By Margo Jefferson, The Pulitzer Prize Winner, New York Times Writer, Who Is Part Of A Feminist Clique At The Times, Which Believes That Black Men Are The Principal Threat To The Women Of The World.