"Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed."
--Heraclitus, fragment 109, Haxton translation, 2001.
I've been following this one casually for over a two-years, and it just gets funnier: aging Terry McMillan goes to Jamaica, gets her groove on (and writes a lousy book on it that's semi-autobiographical, then made into a boring movie...), and finds later that her Jamaican husband is gay. He tells her so, hoping-for some "amicable solution," but McMillan explodes in a tirade of harassment and clearly homophobic-attacks on the man. Most of it occurs via their answering machines. The smokinggun.com has some great highlights of this, and it appears that McMillan is dead-set on harassing Jonathan Plummer.
Who's telling the truth? Certainly, it appears that Plummer is being more forthright, and his documentation of McMillan's messages are extremely-detailed, lending them a lot of credibility. McMillan claims she too has messages from Plummer, but appears not to be providing any evidence--she even paints herself as a victim, which is peculiar considering she's providing all the ammunition any critic of behavior could want. There's more to all of this: McMillan illustrates the deep-seated homophobia in Black America, one that I have witnessed first-hand on several-occasions. I have had a number of Black men tell me they would kill a relative they found to be a homosexual, and it's not an uncommon attitude in Black and subproletarian culture.
The Beef: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0322072mcmillan1.html
I'd like to believe your announcement of the death of neo-conservatism and neo-liberalism...
ReplyDeleteBut so long as capitalism remains the order of the day and the environment is viewed as mere material for human exploitation, I doubt we've seen the end of it... perhaps even the worst of it.
How about some coverage and analysis of our recent efforts exposing the illegal disenfranchisement of progressive voters in St. Joseph County?
Can't cover them all! I got your email and applaud your efforts. If you would like, I would be happy to publish any summaries on it.
ReplyDeleteWith the demise of neoliberal policies in Brazil, Bolivia, Venezuela, and several orther Latin American nations, along-with the embattlement of a neocon administration, I'd say it's obviously ending.
Capitalism--that's another story, and one that will likely continue after our deaths. Also, I have a life to live, and what I feel are priorities are present here. Why not post a blog entirely on the issue of this incident of disenfranchisement?
PS: For capitalism to "end" would require a massive spiritual and philosophical shift in the developed world, probably brought-about by a catrostrophe caused by the system itself. You would have to have a total loss-in-faith in the system. Be happy, we're virtually to that point now, and we're closing on being surrounded by Socialist nations in the hemisphere.
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