Suck it the Fuck Up

Kristi Coulter posted the following resonant comments on Facebook after RBG’s passing…

Quick Q for all the straight, non-disabled white guys who are posting “RIP America” and “Here comes Gilead” and otherwise rolling over and playing dead tonight: what’s it like to be so fucking weak?

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Stanley Crouch Faces the Music

Stanley Crouch died today. We hadn’t been in touch much the past few years. I’d heard he was sick. I don’t know the ailment. I’m sad and shocked. Sad. I always liked him. We got along. I don’t know why. People like you, and you think okay, I like you too.

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Stanley Crouch & The All-American Skin Game

Late in his life Amiri Baraka once mused that he knew he was old because he’d begun to feel sad when his enemies died.  Their obits reminded him of passionate struggles in his past and made the present seem like a diminished thing.  Baraka didn’t outlive Stanley Crouch but I bet he’d’ve felt bummed to know another one of his contras had split. In the case of Crouch, though, Baraka’s sadness might’ve been deepened since Crouch offered him more than an olive branch before both of them departed.

Not that cultural powers-that-be took that in…

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