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David Simon [the Creator Of The Wire] And I Have A Running Controversy For Years. It All Stems From A Telephone Call I Made To Kpfa [pacifica Radio] When He Was A Guest There In The 90's On Chris Welche's Show. He Was Going Around The Country With A Black Kid From The Ghetto To Promote Something Called The Corner - It Was All About Blacks As Degenerates Selling Drugs, Etc.

In Crash, You've Got A Pathological Cop Who At The End Justifies Police Brutality. He Tells The Naïve, Young Cop That You're Going To End Up The Same As Him. He's The Most Sympathetic Character In The Movie. So, The Naïve Cop Ends Up Murdering This Black Kid And Tries To Cover Up The Evidence. It Sort Of Justifies Police Brutality And The Planting Of Evidence Which Is What Happened In The O.j. Simpson Case.

The Cultural Wars Of The Sixties Are Over. I've Reconciled With Those Who Were My Critics And Opponents Years Ago. I Was At Odds With Some Those Who Were Black Nationalists. Yet When Feminists Attempted To End My Career And Leave Me As Literary Road Kill, It Was The Black Nationalists Who Came To My Rescue.

Two Of The Great Leaders Of The Past - Booker T. Washington And Frederick Douglass - Had White Fathers - Who Deserted Them. Now Margo Jefferson, Who Is Hard On Me And The Fellas, Wrote In The Times That She Has Nocturnal, Erotic Fantasies About John Wayne. What's Up With These Feminists? Do You See These Double Standards These Feminists Have? They Dream About John Wayne, But They're Hard On Us [black Men].

In The Middle Of The Next Century, When The Literary Establishment Will Reflect The Multicultural Makeup Of This Country And Not Be Dominated By Assimiliationists With Similar Tastes, From Similar Backgrounds, And Of Similar Pretensions, Langston Hughes Will Be To The Twentieth Century What Walt Whitman Was To The Nineteenth.