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Date Posted: 15:02:42 02/09/03 Sun
Author: Tobias
Subject: Re: Amiri Baraka and the great Jewish debate
In reply to: jp 's message, "Re: Amiri Baraka and the great Jewish debate" on 16:28:52 02/07/03 Fri

>
>Everybody go read Tobias' stuff at
>http://www.unlikelystories.org/seamon.html; it
>features people having sex with shit.
>
>The whole thing leaves a bad taste in my mouth
>(Baraka, not the shit-sexing literature). I fully
>supported (from a dozen states away) the govenor's
>decision to call for Baraka's resignation, but to
>eliminate the post...
>
>Let's break down the chronology: NJ appoints an
>inflammatory racist to the position of Poet Laureate.
>Said Laureate writes an inflammatory, racist poem. The
>elected officials of NJ decide that is inappropriate
>(duh) so they call for his resignation. No dice, since
>he is inflammatory, and has always been thus. So they
>remove the office, which is tantamount to an official
>decree that because of his inflammatory, racist poem,
>they no longer valued state-sponsored poetry.
>
>Is it just me, or is the cure worse than the disease?

Yeah, it is. Nose hacked off to spite the face, or something like that. Too bad position is gone now- NJ in all their wisdom could have replaced Baraka with Trent Lott just to square things up. Buncha fucking idiots.

Best of luck getting to El Paso- delay in trip will just give everyone out there more time to set up the arrival party: i.e. pig roast, buckets of beer beneath a cottonwood at river's edge, buckets of women everywhere.
Cheers,
Tobias

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