From: HF.GTD@forsythe.stanford.edu (Gabrielle Daniels)
Subject: News from the Peninsula
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 22:15:03 GMT

Some things yall oughta catch up on:

Speaking of Cammie Fay Paglia, the girl showed up in San Franciscos
Herbst Theatre to SRO kissy-kissy-poo audiences a couple of
weeks ago.  She musta lapped it up.  I thought about going just to
see her perform, but why encourage the bitch , you know?  Keep my
piddley $12.00 home where it belongs.  Plus, shes just a girl
wanna-be star, bandwidth white.  The more fantastic the lines she
puts out, the more stupid her brain, ounce per ounce.  Susan Sontag
said it best:  when asked whether she knew of Camille Paglia, she
smiled and said she knew nothing of her work (!)

I know one thing, fer shur, fer shur.  You wont find her rappin my
girls straight (so far) feminist bell hooks and
not-a-feminist-but-borderline Toni Morrison or any of the black
lesbian feminists like Audre Lorde and Barbara and Beverly Smith.
They dont even feature in her lexicon, cause shes aiming starlight,
starwhite.  And if she even tried, shed find herself slapped from
here to Saturday night.

Plus, in the SF Examiner Sunday Image section a couple of days
before her talk, she came out as a dyke, saying shed spent most of
her life muffdiving, and dug it (so to speak) so why is she accused
of hating women?  She wants nothing from men at all, at all.  This
is one for her number one fan on this board, Little Stevie Ray
Stovall.

Look.  If gay men can get folks like Terry Dolan and Roy
Cohn...self-hating gays, to coin one from Jewishspeak...then why
cant lesbians and feminists get a Camille Paglia?  This is a
self-hating butch feminist, by far bar none, who takes orders from
Harold Bloom her mentor said the Image article.  This is feminism?
And she talks about Gloria Steinem wanting approval from men...


Here comes the Malcolm X buildup, yall.  Betty Shabazz was
interviewed a week or so ago in the SF Chronicle and it looks like
shes going to be doing the speakers circuit.  So if you guys are
sitting on any student boards, or any BSUs, snap her up quick.
Other than that, run dont walk, if you hear shes going to be in
the area.

The most disgusting aspect of this buildup stuff is the George
Holliday-Spike Lee last-minute legal go-round.  Holliday oughta give
it up, seriously.  The damn videotapes been every freaking
place...let the guy do his film, OK?  Next time, white boy, think
more carefully before its copied and recopied all over the world.
Look into copyright law, OK?

Frankly, and heres my conspiracy theory bag kicking in, I think
somebody goaded Holliday to jump in at the last minute so that the
controversial first few minutes of the film that the Warner Bros.
folks were illin over would be effectively cut out.  If anything
else happens with this flick...

Plus, Betty Shabazz has filed suit to nail these small timers who
are making those -X- caps and teeshirts.  Gotta be authorized by the
sister herself, looks like.  I think thats in the new Jet mag.
Wonder what Malcolm himself would think of this whole mess...


Lastly, but certainly not least, I just picked up Toni Morrisons
latest, Race-ing Justice, En-Gendering Power, Essays on Anita Hill,
Clarence Thomas, and The Construction of Social Reality.
Self-explanatory, yall.  There are essays not only by Toni, but
Paula Giddings, Nellie McKay, Michael Thelwell, Cornell West, A.
Leon Higgenbotham and Patricia J.  Williams.  This is going to be
hot, hot, hot.  When I saw a thumb-sized excerpt from Tonis piece in
Lears magazine, I knew I had to have this book:  Morrison equates
Clarence Thomas to Friday, the escaped black slave in Robinson
Crusoe.  Once Thomas/Friday learns English from Crusoe/Bush, he
loses the power to speak his own language, his own African dialect.
In other words, hes speaking/thinking white, not black.  Anyway,
youve gotta read to it to believe it.

I also picked up Transitions No.  56 magazine at the same time.
Transitions is a magazine which comes out of Britain, but is
published by Oxford University Press.  Its an international,
multicultural review but the emphasis is mostly black.  Chairman of
the board is Wole Soyinka.  Editors are Anthony Appiah and the
always controversial Henry Louis Gates.  The editorial board boasts
Dennis Brutus, Aime Cesaire, Maryse Conde, Carlos Fuentes, bell
hooks, Toni Morrison, Manning Marable, and Derek Walcott, among
others.  See if its at your local college bookstore, or if your
college library takes it.

This new issue has my girl Julianne Malveaux, black female economist
par excellence, interviewing the ever phony-baloney Shelby Steele,
who comes off even more nasty than hes ever been.  What a repellent
mo-fo this cat is!  Ishmael Reed is also interviewed by Michael
Franti of the Disposable Heroes of Hiphocrisy:  Dont you think that
the white neo-Nazis and some of these black nationalists should
unite, so as to save on overhead?  Plus David Bradley writes about
the book that Little Stevie Stovall got so exercised about a few
hundred posts ago, Malcolm:  The Life of a Man Who Changed Black
America as well as the script problems the Malcolm movie had:
Hollywood didnt keep firing writers from the -X- project because the
scripts were wrong.  They kept firing writers because THE STORY was
wrong and the -X- man himself, Spike Lee, is interviewed by Henry
Louis Gates.


<Puff...puff...puff!>  And thats all for now.