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I Asked Joe Weixlmann Why He Would Print A Death Threat Like That In Light Of The Fact That There Are All Of These Armed Ideological Nuts Wandering Around Loose. He Said That For Him, To "ice" Someone Means To Reprimand Them.

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.

The Cultural Wars Of The Sixties Are Over. I've Reconciled With Those Who Were My Critics And Opponents Years Ago. I Was At Odds With Some Those Who Were Black Nationalists. Yet When Feminists Attempted To End My Career And Leave Me As Literary Road Kill, It Was The Black Nationalists Who Came To My Rescue.

I Guess When It Comes To This Privileged White Racist Feminist Movement They Respect Someone Who Treats Them Rough: John Wayne. Frank Sinatra. Phillip Roth.

The Afrocentric Exploration Of The Black Past Only Scratches The Surface. A Full Examination Of The Ancestry Of Those Who Are Referred To In The Newspapers As Blacks And African Americans Must Include Europe And Native America.