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#17 – God’s Socialist, pt. 7: A Gallant, Glorious, Screaming End

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The White Negro

Before sartr an fenon wer, you had guys like norman mayler, the beat writer and one of t major leaders of the counterculture. In 57 or 58, he written a famous, infamous, i guess, i don't know. To day, maybe you'd call it essay, in which he describes this new emerging human type, the hipster. The essay is called the white negro. It holds up every black stereotype and caricature that you can imagine as an imitative ideal for a liberated white person. But Mayler would not have found any contradiction in that - martinluther king was not hip. He was a square. And tomayler

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