Adam Mansbach

Website(s): http://www.adammansbach.com/

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® Angry Black White Boy : A Novel (Paperback)
by Adam Mansbach [Click for More Information]

 

Excerpt: I'm here to tell the white man in the mirror the truth right to his face.  I have seen the enemy and he is me.  No competition, I battle myself.  I'm Macon Everett Detornay, a white nigger in the universe to paraphrase both LeRoi Jones -- whose middle name I share, or did before he changed his -- and the Aryan Nation vis a vis yours truly, with whom I share nothing but a zero melanin and politics unacceptable to mainstream America.  Or so I thought. 

   
Like Malcolm, I expect to be dead before I see these words in print.  Naw, let me stop bullshitting.  That's a lie.  I'm  broadcasting live and direct from the getaway ride as the scene of the crime fades away into the speckled past and credits roll.  I'd like to send this next one out to myself, special dedication to the one I love to hate, and I wanna give a big shout-out to the universe and New York City for believing in me when I'd stopped believing in myself.  This award is for the little people.  I wanna thank everybody who made me as bad as I could be, who boosted me until my noggin thumped against the glass ceiling of white people's ability to give a fuck.  I bled myself halfway to death trying to break on through and never made it, but I don't give a fuck.  I did my time, and now I know what I am. 

And knowing is half the battle.  What does the scorpion say to the frog as they both sink?  I told you I was a scorpion, dickhead.  Except that white folks aren't drowning and black folks never agreed to give us a lift across the pond in the first place.  Maybe on some spiritual Thurgood Marshall this-system-hurts-us-all level we're drowning, but most of us don't seem to have noticed.  And luckily, we can afford the best in psychiatric care, anti-depressants and religion should we begin to feel the water lapping at our ankles.  [more]

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