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bullshit. the us govt. spend three quarters of a trillion dollars on defense.

(I did find this interview excerpt discussing his King book: “First of all, they both used old intellectual sources and gave them a fresh context. That is, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Tupac Shakur. They had surprisingly, perhaps achingly, similar views about women at certain points in their life. Three, they both understood the necessity to confront oppression directly. Four, they had a vision of what society was about, and tried to argue for their views prevailing. Now, there were some differences, of course.” Of course ! I just think creating such an analogy and trying to pursue it is beyond intellectually and morally insulting. As for Dyson having “an uwavering commitment to class politics” along with “other post modernist types”, I’m kind of agahst at such a statement. I don’t feteshize “class politics”, but frankly I don’t think Dyson and his cohorts in neo-hip academia would know class politics if it bit them on the ass. They strike me as wannabe hustlers who’s political analysis barely rises above that of the morons they attempt to elevate. For god’s sake, if another Curtis Mayfield came along I’d be wary of any academic who wrote essays comparing him to MLKjr. But the wing of hip-hop culture that creates “martyrs” in it’s grotesque excesses and really rivals the old minstrels and coon shows in propogating degrading and destructive images of black people as clowns and criminals ? Gimmeafuckinbreak. Curtis was an artist inspired by a social movement to elevate his people – and all people – through his music. And, of course, he didn’t shy from the street culture when he wrote the Shaft score. But unfortunate figures like Tupac – who I found immensely talented – are really sad and small in comparison. Their lack of any sense of proportion or personal responsibility for the images and lifestyle they propogate and profit from – generalization, but easily defensible – is almost as painful as it is disgusting. I sound prudish on this when I get started and I’m not. I love Dave Chappelle, in all of his contradictions and complexity. But I’ll be damned if I’d embarrass myself – and him – by writing a screed trying to find analogies between Chappelle and Malcom X. The appropriate analogy is to Pryor, if I needed one. And if I were mining black history for an analogous figure to Tupac I’d look to, say, Sam Cooke before torturing myself, my readers, Tupac and King by writing the kind of pretentious trivia Dyson generates when he writes about black history and popular culture.)