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I hope you last long enough to see how it end too Cynique. This is reality TV. What is most astonishing is how caught up people are for the chosen side -- it is the same frenzy you see at a football game. The "debates" are even analyzed the way a prize fight would be -- issues are irrelevant. If Barack loses (which I still think there is a very good chance he will) Black people will react as if the issue is just about race and therefore any action will be misdirected and ineffective. If things stay the same or get worse under a Romney administration. I think the entire country may be primed to do something effective to bring about real change. If Barack wins and things stay the same or get worse. Black people will remain ineffective and a Republican will be swept into office easily in 2016. If things get better under either scenario -- Great!

Y'all are bad I ain't even gonna play with poking fun a two person ( guess it is really two people huh)... I have to say until I searched for this video that I had no clue there were someone alive with two heads! TWO HEADS!?! This is astonishing! I would stop and watch this if I were channel surfing. The program seems to be done without treating them (they really are to people) like a freak show. In fact the apparent normalcy of their lives is almost bizarre. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkKWApOAG2g This seems to be the full program season 1 episode 3. Now I have zero interest in this show after watch the first few minutes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0z7OPvs4Lg

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Hey Milton, I'd appreciate if you would drop me troy@aalbc.com the name of the event and what happened (or share you experience here). Another problem we have is that many of us are forced to learn the hard way. That is we in order to avoid airing dirty laundry or coming across as "haters", we don't talk about bad experiences that we've had, as a result others get burned more easily. We could use a Black Book Better Business Bureau (BBBBB or B5) or something.

Wow it only took you 11 minutes of thought Writergirl :-) I feel everything you are saying but I still have a problem with the analogy. Again, a gun's sole purpose is to 'cause harm -- even when hunting. Religion, unlike the gun is used for both good and evil. I think the world would be a much better place without guns. I think the world would be a better place if religious practice were more spiritual.

Well I finished the book. Funny I picked up the paperback of Wilkerson's tome "The Warmth of other Suns" to read next, from a local independent bookstore, and it must be 10 times as long -- easily -- and it still cost less than Morrison's pamphlet. I know, I know, I'm too fixated on the price of Morrison's circular -- I'm just saying it was too short to be called a "novel". I thought the book was well written. There was no "plot". I thought it was an interesting insight into Frank Money's motivations and experiences. I like Morrison's writing style her ability to conjure images is slightly reminiscent of Jean Tomer. While I enjoyed the book I would not rave over it. It was simply to short compared to everything else that is available to read. But that can also be an advantage. If you are someone, who does not have a lot of time to read, and you want to sample Morrison, you can easily get through "Home" in a few hours. I read 1/2 of it in a sports bar, over fried pickles and beer, and finished it off before going to bed a few nights later. Cynique can you go more into the Zoot suited character? I don't think i really "got" him. I understand wearing the Zoot suit was a "declaration of freedom and self-determination, even rebelliousness". Maybe the Zoot suited apparition signifying his approval by the end of the story represented Cee and Franks freedom or the beginning of it. Also what do you think was the significance of reburying the killed father?

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Here is another comment from a popular author: Tayari Jones [http://aalbc.com/authors/tayarijones.htm] commented on your link: "It was hard to respond to the link because there were no examples given. I mean, don't you think it would have been helpful to define the term "literary fiction". And even some evidence of this "languishing." So, how to respond? I mean, Colson Whitehead [http://aalbc.com/authors/colsonwhitehead.htm] is languishing all the way to the bank." There were also a bunch of responses to this on AALBC.com's facebook fan page: http://runt.it/aalbcfb Seems people are interested and will read the posts here, but prefer to comment on Facebook. This is interesting....

Chris Hayden another author named Chris posted the following on my facebook page. (I used the facebook icon to share it on my facebook page. I've done this with a few conversation from this board snce the upgrade, but folks post responses on facebook...) Christopher Alan Chambers [http://aalbc.com/authors/christopher_chambers.htm] "Very good piece. I've found that Lit. fiction written by folk who started in (or pass back and forth b/w) genre fiction is much better b/c the training is on characters, storytelling and not abstract code. hahaha it. BUT let's be frank. An...other reason is (1) major publishers won't buy it unless it is weird and is written in code and (2), strangely related, clearly black folks don't want to read it. Most folk are NOT Yale or Stanford alumni or poets, so some stuff isn't going to be the cup of tea for a community college gradwho's a single mom trying to read something simple and steamy on the No. 45 bus. I'm not being facetious--I'm being objective. Now, should people be more aspirational? Sure. But that's something that's evident in majority society too. It's just that there's more white folks than black folks in this country, and more opportunities for them to have access to literature, and higher proportion of them who enjoy lit. fiction. Ironically, doesn't it seem they support black lit. fiction more than most black readers?"

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Yes Welcome Back Cynique. Hopefully Chris cross over too. A buddy of mine Relative young Black man, went to a date with a supposed "sista" turned out to be an old Chinesse woman -- seriously! Said she was lonely, "and just wanted someone to take her out". My man took it quite well and had dinner with the woman. i think he did more than that but just ain't admitting anything...

Check out the top posters from the last discussion board." The top three posters would definitely be in "my five".

My God this is so tragic. Death toll is based upon destruction there is no firm figures yet. My prayer to the the victims and their families.