Not sure if I've been shadow banned, so don't know if anyone ever looks at the blog. So be it. The following was sketched and shot out to the targets in 2020. No response was ever received. When radical becomes groupthink ideologue, it is no longer really radical, which demands a certain independence and courage… to break away from the herd, including the self-proclaimed radical herd.
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The following is a broadside distributed in 2014. I post it here now because I want it to be available regarding an article I'm writing on the Cape Cod Writers Center.
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So, Amy, how about a little exhibit of cartoons critical of academic curators like you at SUNY ?
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...
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...
