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Myself with Others: Margo Jefferson

The LRB Podcast

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You Know You Know I'm a Black Arts Poet and I Was a Slave and I Was in Love With Barack Obama

Barack Obama was an accommodationist in the sense that he thought that well okay Vietnam is awful but at least we have the war on poverty. That's the kind of compromise that the younger generation simply was not willing to acceptExactly exactly we were not having it we were nothaving it, you know what I mean? Your mother said that if a fly guy caught in your afro you would break his little wings trying to get out yes and she had a friend over for lunch that day and they just Mary Peels of laughter so I just had to stomp out of the room.

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