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...awesome aesthetic reach of Sunday's "intellectual memorial" for W.E.B. DuBois owed much as well to the voices of Walter Robinson and Co. These voices proved more than equal to the haunting and soulful beauty of what DuBois deftly called the "Sorrow Songs"--the Negro Spirituals. The Singer of "My Lord, What A Morning" matched Marian Anderson at her best, and the beautifully disciplined improvisation on "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"--boldly folding over the classical Spiritual rendition with the classical or high-style Gospel mode--was something to behold...
Nelson says she tries to live according to what she characterizes as "an authentic Negro experience" ...as if such a phenomenon exists. Her formulation of the requirements for this experience includes adhering to a dogmatic view of liberal politics which accepts no divergence...
TITLE: VOLUNTEER SLAVERY: MY AUTHENTIC NEGRO EXPERIENCE...
Like many blacks, Nelson, a former free-lance writer for the Village Voice, believed that succeeding in the white corporate world would require emotional gymnastics. But in exchange for a $50,000 salary, she was ready to perform "the standard Negro balancing act when it comes to dealing with white folks, which involves sufficiently blurring the edges of my being enough so that they don't feel intimidated, while simultaneously holding on to my integrity." What Nelson didn't expect was that black males would join with white ones to push her off the tightrope. In her case at least...
...swirl of publicity as many earlier black intellectuals and leaders have been. Starting with Booker T. Washington, America has seemed to have room for only one top black spokesman at a time, consigning each former favorite to the ash heap of inauthenticity as soon as a new H.N.I.C. (Head Negro in Charge) appeared...