Of all people you surely have an
opinion about whats transpired
Of all people
Transpired
Transpired
You didnt see it coming
It wasnt sudden
It wasnt sudden
It began like a beauty contest was run poorly was produced like a
stinking reality show an when it was allotted its principal it was purely
inevitably
Dont you think
Dont you think
Rather you might or should ask me if I think something has expired Which I dont believe is the case Nothings expired
More accurately its changed
But perhaps asking me what my opinion is is part of the trouble were forced to contend with Opinion Everyone has their opinion everyone brays their opinion briskly without considering facts careless about facts when these inconvenient facts are the basis of what is certainly true and what is true is a component of the larger Truth capital t
Ill tell you what has been
accomplished
Usually an curiously for that matter I find the words I need while Im reading an tend
to read exactly what I need to be reading at the moment I ought to be reading
it
Whats been accomplished is what Faulkner
wrote in '48 about '34 in Intruder in the Dust
“. . . he . . . learn(ed what)
every white man in that whole section of the country had been thinking . . .
for years:
We got to make him be a nigger
first. He’s got to admit to be a nigger. Then maybe we will accept him as he
seems to intend to be accepted.
Because . . . he learned it, all
that anyone who knew that part of the country could tell him about the Negro
who said ‘ma’am’ to the women just as any white man did and who said ‘sir’ and
‘mister’ to you if you were white but who you knew was thinking neither and he
knew you knew it but who was not even waiting, daring you to make the next
move, because he didn’t even care.”
Which isnt to say he ascribes it
to black people alone
Hes a racebaiter then denies it
Hes taken a page from George
Wallace -- Its the person who accuses
another of being a racist first whos really the racist
My opinion
He an It is bullshit
1211, Friday,
6 5. 16
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