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I Was Challenged To A Fistfight By Margo Jefferson, The Pulitzer Prize Winner, New York Times Writer, Who Is Part Of A Feminist Clique At The Times, Which Believes That Black Men Are The Principal Threat To The Women Of The World.

For Generations Comedians Have Made Jokes About Scots-irish In The South Inter-breeding. "i Am My Own Grandpa" And All That Stuff; You Know, Because They All Were Marrying Their First Cousins.

We Not Only Grew Up On Be-bop; Be-bop Raised Us. For My Generation, Be-bop Came On Like A Light Bulb Going Flash Behind The Eyes.for Us, It Was Not Only An Intellectual Movement, But A Way Of Life. We Walked, Dressed, And Rapped Be-bop.

In Haitian Mythology There Is The Figure Ghede, Who In West Africa, Is Iku, Whose Role Is To Show "each Man His Devil." He's Represented By A Figure Wearing A Top Hat And Smoking A Cigar. That's My Gig.

American Cultural Institutions Seem So Bent On Preserving The Values Of "western Civilization," The Mythical "whitetown," That Welearn About One Another's Cultures The Same Way We Learn About Sex: In The Streets.