Comments on Reading Tonight

Paul,

So you're saying to be wrong is delightful?

And no, I don't feel like letting it go.

@1: Being wrong is delightful when Jen Graves does it.

Paul, to answer your question, yes, most visual artists are simply interior decorators for bored rich people.

"The Autobiography of Malcom X" sold quite a few copies. Sells quite a few still, I think.

Without quibbling over words like "billions" of white people the point is valid:

the whole racial experience is largely unknown to many whites because they don't read the great books that deal with it.

There was one novel called The Unknown World or Edge of the Known a few years ago about the Cane River blacks who owned slaves.....

The Anne Rice book about the free person of color in New Oleans.....

I'd really like to see a major motionpicture about enslaved persons' revolting....one thing that is white washed is how enslaved persons fought back to such a degree that there were dozens of ensalved persons' revellions, there were constant night patrols (thus the Southern penchant for having a militia and for calling any upstanding citizen "Colonel" -- like in KFC)....this hisotry is very submerged.

So is how slavery ended in the Northern states. They had some slaves. Then they didn't. How did that happen? No one knows. In fact people think that up north they never had slaves when the fact is they did usually up to about 1777 or 1810 or so.

@2,

So when will Jen declare "Poker Playing Dogs" to be the Greatest Artwork Of All Time?

And how delightful will that be?

And no, I don't feel like letting it go.

"The Color Purple" sold a ton of copies to white people. Malcolm X, not so much.

"Fatherhood" by Bill Cosby. (But that might not touch on race.