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For Generations Comedians Have Made Jokes About Scots-irish In The South Inter-breeding. "i Am My Own Grandpa" And All That Stuff; You Know, Because They All Were Marrying Their First Cousins.

Phillip Roth Uses His Black Women Characters To Make Anti Intellectual Remarks About Black History Month, Begun By A Man Who Reached Intellectual Heights That Roth Will Never Attain. Roth Is A Petty Bigot And His Ignorant Remarks About Black Culture Expose Him As A Buffoon To Scholars The World Over.

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 Reached The Age Of 70, Because I Have Cultivated An Association Of Multicultural Intellectuals Who Are Informed And Alert To Whatever "tricknology" That's Laid On Us By The Powers That Be. These Include White Ethnic Intellectuals- People Who Know Their Roots- As Well As Native American, Asian American, Hispanic And Black Intellectuals. These Are Thirty, Forty-year Associations With Some Of The Best Minds Around. Minds That Are Ignored By The Media.

A Lot Of Great Art Comes From The Afro-american Male Experience. Black Men Are Geniuses, And Many Times Their Desperation, Their Position As Being Pariahs, Leads Them To Great Originality.