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I Don't Know Why People Always Compare Me [ With Amiri Baraka] I Was Never Part Of The Black Arts Repertory Theater Or The Black Arts Movement; People Who Claim That I Was Are Wrong. I Was Downtown. I Was Living In Chelsea When They Were Operating In Harlem.

Constance L. Rice, Co-director Of The Los Angeles Of The Advancement Project, Told The Times That Seltzer Might Have Been Influenced By David Simon's Fake Ghetto Series, "the Wire." It Figures. Isn't This Sexism? Isn't This A Double Standard? They're Hard On This Young Woman For Her Fake Ghetto Book, Yet Praise These White Guys For Theirs. So There's A Big Market In Downing Black Men.

Statistic: The Us Bureau Of Missing Persons Reports That In 1968 Over 100,000 People Disappeared Leaving No Solid Clues Nor Traceonly A Space In The Lives Of Their Friends.

Few White Citizens Are Acquainted With Blacks Other Than Those Projected By The Media And The So--called Educational System, Whichis Nothing More Than A System Of Rewards And Punishments Based Upon One's Ability To Pledge Loyalty Oaths To Anglo Culture. The Media And The "educational System" Are The Prime Sources Of Racism In The United States.

Regardless Of The Criticisms I Receive From The Left, The Right And The Middle, I Think It's Important To Maintain A Prolific Writing Jab, As Long As My Literary Legs Hold Up.