The Plays Raise Issues That Are Ignored

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.

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.

If The British Prose Style Is Churchillian, America Is The Tobacco Auctioneer, The Barker; Runyon, Lardner, W.w., The Traveling Salesman Who Can Sell The World The Brooklyn Bridge Every Day, Can Put Anything Over On You And Convince You That Tomatoes Grow At The South Pole.

David Simon [the Creator Of The Wire] And I Have A Running Controversy For Years. It All Stems From A Telephone Call I Made To Kpfa [pacifica Radio] When He Was A Guest There In The 90's On Chris Welche's Show. He Was Going Around The Country With A Black Kid From The Ghetto To Promote Something Called The Corner - It Was All About Blacks As Degenerates Selling Drugs, Etc.

In Haitian Mythology There Is The Figure Ghede, Who In West Africa, Is Iku, Whose Role Is To Show "each Man His Devil." He's Represented By A Figure Wearing A Top Hat And Smoking A Cigar. That's My Gig.