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I didn't know he was an intellectual and social critic. I wrote him off because he dismissed Miles Davis and was praising Wynton Marsalis. I just assumed he was a conservative and so I didn't pay attention to him. I just watched a documentary on Baldwin, and I have seen people quote Baldwin I don't think we will be quoting Kanye despite his celebrity.

I think I may have heard him in person. I also had heard of more of the white performers . However I was more familiar with the Black artists . Even though though I was hanging out with an artsy crew I made a concerted effort to see Black artists . I felt it was important to see certain artists before either of us died . I also had low financial obligations. Stanley Crouch points out that we are more familiar with the white copy than the same Black originator . I can name more actors in the last thirty years years than politicians throughout history .

Neither Pioneer

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The signers of the declaration of independence were all men of means except for a few. There is paradoxical relationship between their espouseed ideas and their lifestyles

The New York I knew no longer exists. In fact it was disappearing before I left. I am in Oz and life is good. Even while i was there I recognised the transient nature of the city. So i lived like a tourist and tried to experience the many sides of the City.

Hey @Troy are you familiar with her work. Ran into her at the St Mark's Poetry Project. Richard Forman was reading this wild piece of writing. I was laughing and she asked me if I was a writer. She would go on to write Top Dog and Under Dog which starred two of my favourite actors Don Cheadle and Jeffrey Wright. She also wrote Venus. MacArthur “Genius” Award recipient, and in 2015 was awarded the prestigious Gish Prize for Excellence in the Arts. Other grants and awards include those from the National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts. She is also a recipient of a Lila-Wallace Reader’s Digest Award, a CalArts/Alpert Award in the Arts, a Whiting Award in Drama, and a Guggenheim Foundation Grant. She is an alum of New Dramatists and of Mount Holyoke College. Parks’ project 365 Days/365 Plays (where she wrote a play a day for an entire year) was produced in over 700 theaters worldwide, creating one of the largest grassroots collaborations in theater history.

'A New Moment for Black Bookstores' by Eugene Holley Jr. Eugene Holley Jr. profiles four Black booksellers for Publishers Weekly in “A New Moment for Black Bookstores.” He writes the following: The publishing world has had to adapt to a business landscape that is rapidly changing as a result of the pandemic and the response to continuing police violence against unarmed Black people. The 130 Black-owned bookstores in the U.S. have had to deal with these broader challenges, as well as with cultural and economic forces that uniquely affect them. … As challenging as this period is for bookstores like Marcus Books and Turning Pages, other outlets, like Semicolon, a new bookstore in Chicago’s West Town neighborhood, are seeing growth. ‘The pandemic has actually given us a boost, because everybody started paying us more attention and found out we actually existed,’ said owner D.L. Mullen. … When Black Lives Matter and other social justice movements began to attract widespread attention, people were ordering only anti-racist titles, Mullen at Semicolon said. ‘But we made a point to introduce Black fiction to our readers,’ she added. ‘We made it a point to do that every time someone ordered an anti-racist title.’

Donald Trump has already won, yet you may have to send me that Fity. @Troy

Thanks I seem to be having some difficulty posting links.

It is helpful to understand the terms before disagreeing with a statement.

Curiosity ...

It may take a bit longer

Focusing on standards and substandards is fine for you, I am more interested in 6σ .

Different experiences due to different perspectives and interests, Gentlemen .

Rules yes, standards are of little interest to me.

Jamaican Mormons I am going to have to read tge article again.

At this rate it will be just you and Pioneer arguing.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/deep-swamps-archaeologists-fugitive-slaves-kept-freedom-180960122/

@Pioneer1if you are going to be dismissive, you may need to either expand your knowledge or lower your ignorance.

Oh, I'm VERY interested in it. I actually ENGAGE in quite a bit of it. @Pioneer1you have made both your point and mine.

I wasn't expecting you to be interested in Logic or critical thinking. Like I said it is often absent. Thank you for proving my point @Pioneer1