What Was Once Dormant Is Now A

Richard Price, Who Has Made A Fortune Writing Fake Ghetto Books, Says He Takes A Cab Into The Ghetto, Transcribes Black Speech For A Brief Time And Returns Home. His Fake Ghetto Books Have Bought Him A Townhouse In Gramercy Park And Home On Staten Island.

Regardless Of The Criticisms I Receive From The Left, The Right And The Middle, I Think It's Important To Maintain A Prolific Writing Jab, As Long As My Literary Legs Hold Up.

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.

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.

I'm Beginning To Believe That Killer Illiteracy Ought To Rank Near Heart Disease And Cancer As One Of The Leading Causes Of Deathamong Americans. What You Don't Know Can Indeed Hurt You, And So Those Who Can Neither Read Nor Write Lead Miserable Lives, Like Richard Wright's Character, Bigger Thomas, Born Dead With No Past Or Future.