Tag Archives: James Baldwin

T.V. Eye: prez in the fun house

Posted on October 27, 2012 by Dave

Network television. Just what we’d expect the President to have a relish for. The commander in chief watching Neilson rated drama. This president with elite status I.Q. A stinging critique, but nothing here that is not known; America is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alex Gansa, Damian Lewis, Edward Said, Franz Francken, Harold Bloom American religion, Homeland Gideon Raff, Homeland television series, Iggy Pop, James Baldwin, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, The Stooges Fun House | Leave a comment

cut off your tree to spite your earth

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Dave

Cut off your tree. We are often told in the Palestinian rhetoric how the olive tree is the food of spirituality connected to the soil, all in a distinct and sanctified relation to the above. Allah’s benign and not so … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged B'Tselem, Benny Katzover, CAMERA, David Grisman, David Ha'ivri, Ernst Kirchner, George Grosz, James Baldwin, Jerry Garcia, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Olive Trees Settler violence Israel, Orange Blossom Special, Otto Mueller, Shomron Settlers Council, Vassar Clements, Yisrael Medad | Leave a comment

the blue flame this time

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Dave

James Cone’s The Cross and the Lynching Tree is a perplexing book.You wonder if its socialism using religion as a pretext to promote ideology or whether the attack against money is part of a larger value system intrinsic to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Anne-Louis Girodet, cornel west, Gustav Landauer, Helen Levitt photography, James Baldwin, James Cone, james h. cone, john dewey, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Malcolm X, Martin Buber, Martin Luther King, Ralph Ellison | Leave a comment

FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET: Sail Away to Victimhood

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Dave

Huckleberry Finn as everyman. Chronic suffering of brain cramps, broken by occasional lapses of sanity. The decision by a publishing house, NewSouth Books, from Alabama, to exchange the nigger word in Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn”, , for “slave” , or … Continue reading →

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The N WORD and HUCK fiNN: When the Revolution Comes

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Dave

Politically correct. Civilized. Lynchings and catfish and the more “dangerous” notions of interracial sex.”How could a black revolutionary ever be sure that white radicals would not return to the fold of white racism.” …IS the road to racism, a separate … Continue reading →