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Article: A thirst for blackness; The children of the dream define U.S. culture.(OPED)(POLITICAL BOOKS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- January 22, 2003
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Byline: Philip Gold,, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Among the greatest pleasures of reading is sitting down with a book you expect to find distasteful or worse, and discovering a jewel. And among the greatest pleasures of reviewing is getting to say so.
"Everything but the Burden: What White People Are Taking from Black Culture." Here we go again. Another hyperventilated screed, part post-postmodern deconstructuralist gibberish, part paean to gangstas and hos, part all-purpose rage. "It's a black thing, you wouldn't understand." Very well. If I can't understand, no sense wasting my time trying. And don't give me any of that racist stuff. I'm not a ...