Monday, February 27, 2023

John Reed and Lawrence Brown

Well, John Reed is dead. He was the intellectually corrupt head of the local human rights commission in Barnstable, MA.  For him, I was the wrong race, and so to be ignored.  So, how can I possibly write, RIP?  Rather RII, Rest In Infamy!  Below is an aquarelle I sketched on him a while ago.  Bureaucrat educator/columnist Lawrence Brown just wrote a Cape Cod Times hagiography on him, "Opinion/Brown: John Reed Cape civil rights activist pushed us to think about race, justice," which is how I was informed of the death.  And so, I write a counter-essay, which will be sent to the brick wall Times, which refuses to publish anything I send it...



Monday, February 20, 2023

Naomi Shihab Nye

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Unsurprisingly, Nye and the student editors of Texas State chose NOT to respond.  Thus, is the state of vigorous debate, cornerstone of democracy, in the academic/literary establishment...