There Would Be No Rock And Roll

In The Middle Of The Next Century, When The Literary Establishment Will Reflect The Multicultural Makeup Of This Country And Not Be Dominated By Assimiliationists With Similar Tastes, From Similar Backgrounds, And Of Similar Pretensions, Langston Hughes Will Be To The Twentieth Century What Walt Whitman Was To The Nineteenth.

Ethnic Life In The United States Has Become A Sort Of Contest Like Baseball In Which The Blacks Are Always The Chicago Cubs.

Americans Are Fickle. And What Constitutes The Enemy Is Always Changing. Believe It Or Not, At One Time Blacks Were The Favored Model Minority Over Asian Americans.

A Black Boxer's Career Is The Perfect Metaphor For The Career Of A Black Male. Every Day Is Like Being In The Gym, Sparring With Impersonal Opponents As One Faces The Rudeness And Hostility That A Black Male Must Confront In The United States, Where He Is The Object Of Both Fear And Fascination.

Richard Price Got A Million Dollar Advance On One Fake Film Book Based On A Paragraph Outline And Is Able To Seduce Gullible White Reviewers Who Know Less About Ghetto Life Than He. The New York Times Has Devoted More Space To Price's Tourist, Ghetto Writing Than To Any Black Writer In History.