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...American left prides itself on its alliance with blacks, but often enough the ties between the two groups are strained. Black America tends to be religious, opposed to gay rights, for example. And for Wolfe, Black culture provides a far more realistic understanding of manliness. Rap music of LL and DMX celebrates male prowess in a way that terrifies post-feminist whites. Indeed, Roger Too White, the Uncle Tom-style lawyer in A Man in Full, loses his blackness by allowing white society to emasculate him. Sexual temptation is the urge within him to return to his own race...
...When it comes to the rap, I go to the artist and I say, "Make it hot." So I don't even know. I don't correct the grammar...
When I first met H. Rap Brown, during the long, hot summer of 1967, the chairman of the wildly misnamed Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was a hotheaded black revolutionary. As a cub reporter for the Washington Post, I covered a speech he delivered in Cambridge, Md., exhorting a crowd of angry young blacks: "If America don't come around, we're gonna burn America down!" His fiery rhetoric notwithstanding, he was less responsible for the arson and sniping that erupted later that night than was the jittery white cop who angered the crowd by firing a shotgun, slightly wounding Rap...
...Party, a totally separate organization.) The charge: murder and aggravated assault in connection with the shooting of two sheriff's deputies in Atlanta who had tried to arrest Al-Amin for failing to appear in court to face relatively minor charges. It seemed like something the rabble rouser H. Rap Brown would do, not the gray-bearded cleric, now 56, whom I had watched leading his flock in prayer...
...after his death, the Oscar-winning Hungarian composer is at last getting acclaim for such disciplined yet intensely passionate works as the soaring violin concerto he wrote in 1956 for Jascha Heifetz, newly and brilliantly recorded by McDuffie, Yoel Levi and the Atlanta Symphony. Forget the dumb critics' bum rap--this is great music...