(2002-05-17) a

Mark Goldblatt claims he's being "whiteballed" for writing a novel (AfricaSpeaks) satirizing African American-s. For, to return to my original point about the effect of Sat Ire, no one nowadays needs to be satirized more than African Americans. If not for the French - who've retired all such trophies - African Americans would currently rank as the most hypocritical, most paranoid, most pretentious group of people on the planet... African-American political leaders are, nowadays, with rare exceptions, a ragtag crew of racial arsonists, conspiracy mongers and corporate shakedown artists. Their intellectual leaders are, with rare exceptions, purveyors of absurd mythologies of perpetual victimization - and the exceptions, in this case, are without exception shunned by their own communities... And I tried to "keep it real" - in the sense that many of the more grotesque passages are taken directly from conversations I overheard on the streets, or quotes from Hip-Hop magazines, or rants on PublicAccess television. (Racism? Politically Correct)