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#23 Whose America?, pt. 2: Inner City Blues

The Martyr Made Podcast

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Podhorets' Essay on Black Violence

The bulk of Podhorets' essay is an itemization of grievances accumulated by him against blacks from his boyhood. His best friend Carl was black but one day Carl hit him on the way home and accused him of killing Jesus. This is the schoolyard manifestation of the feelings James Baldwin was expressing in his times article. Most black kids would not grow up to be a feat homosexual novelists like James Baldwin and the ones in Podhoret's stories are of the more common type.

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