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And lastly the fact that I can't write black stereotypes or ghetto types, as to why I couldn't do it. I have black characters in my novels but they would work better on screen, in a film because you can see African types being in stories that they are not in now. They are black in appearance and history but the stories don't yet involve issues about slavery, racism or oppression. In one book I have a black girl who is alienated from her Southern Baptist family. In this novel the race of some of the other important characters is never stated. The heroine here is like a science geek. I once suggested that Frodo could've been played by a black British actor playing a gentry type. Hobbits are not neccesarily white with those brown furry feet! Anyway, some whites were offended by the idea and of course there were no black people in Tolkien's world just sinister darker peoples from the Southern areas, if I recall correctly, who could be blacks, the ones riding the elephants. Given Tolkien's brief infancy in South Africa that may explain it and other factors of his upbringing in England later. I think the movies censored this. I'm not even sure today's blacks are the same as the blacks that lived under Jim Crow in terms of actual sensilbities or experiences. Playthell Benjamin or Stanley Crouch or both mentioned this difference in terms of the importance of education among blacks before or during the civil rights era. One of them told the story of an excon telling him to stay in school so as to not end up like him. The point was the thug life is idealized rather than rejected now. I think black youth, working class, should've favored Jazz music over hip hop, a richer more complex genre. I'm not impressed by hip hop poetry though it is clever and slang of course always enriches languages if the words stick around.

LAST WEEK ON A 2007 EPISODE OF BAISDEN AFTER DARK ON TV ONE..PASTOR HAGGINS SUGGESTED COUPLES WATCH PORN TO GET SEXUALLY STIMULATED,REALLY.SO JESSE JACKSON, JESSE JACKSON JR, BISHOP EDDIE LONG WERE THEY ALL WATCHING PORN,/PREACHERS THAT CHEAT ON THEIR WIVES, OR A PREACHERS SON, .BISHOP EDDIE LONG SHOULD BE OFF THE PULPIT AND BEHIND BARS FOR SEXUALLY ROMANCING YOUNG BOYS...,IN THE 1990'S PREACHER HENRY LYONS WAS LOCKED UP FOR STEALING I THINK 4 MILLION.HE CHEATED ON HIS WIVES, AFTER RELEASED HE GOT MARRIED AGAIN.....,IF THE CHURCH WANTS THE COMMUNITY TO HAVE SEX DISCIPLINE,THE PREACHERS SHOULD HAVE SEXUAL SELF CONTROL....I THINK PREACHER JAMAL BRYANT WHO COMES ON SUNDAY MORNINGS , I THINK HE HAD A MISTRESS AND A CHILD, LIKE JESSE JACKSON......