As A Writer, You Explore All Kinds

Two Of The Great Leaders Of The Past - Booker T. Washington And Frederick Douglass - Had White Fathers - Who Deserted Them. Now Margo Jefferson, Who Is Hard On Me And The Fellas, Wrote In The Times That She Has Nocturnal, Erotic Fantasies About John Wayne. What's Up With These Feminists? Do You See These Double Standards These Feminists Have? They Dream About John Wayne, But They're Hard On Us [black Men].

I Was On A Panel With Light Skinned Blacks And A Famous Gay Science Fiction Writer, Who Were Complaining About How Blacks Are Against Gays And Light Skinned Blacks And How Intolerant Blacks Are Of Different Groups. My Position Was That Blacks Were Among The Most Humanistic, Tolerant Groups In The Country And That Across The Street From My House In Oakland Was One Inhabited By White Gays.

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.

What I Can't Understand Why Blacks Can't Achieve Royal Status When It Comes To Forms That They Have Largely Created? I Mean There's A White King Of Rock N' Roll, There's A White King Of Jazz, How Come We Can Never Achieve Titles Of Royalty In These Fields We Are Supposed To Prevail In? They Held A So Called Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame The Other Night, Where White Judges Credit People Who Resemble Them With The Invention Of Rock And Roll. I Didn't Even See Blacks In The Audience.

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