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COLUMN TWENTY-THREE, JULY 1, 1997
(Copyright © 1997 Al Aronowitz)
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CHEAP SHOTS (Cont'd) or INTRANSIGENCE (Cont'd)
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 10:39:32 -0500
From: Al Aronowitz
To: Lewis H.Latimer <staff@blacksandjews.com>
Subject: Re:
LEWIS: So what do you think of the idea of you contributing a monthly column to my column in which you could mouth off about anything you want to mouth off about? --Al Aronowitz
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 09:26:17 -0500
From: Al Aronowitz
To: Lewis H. Latimer <staff@blacksandjews.com
Subject: NO KIDDING!
LEWIS: No kidding! I'm offering you space for a monthly column to give you an opportunity to express any and all of your viewpoints concerning whichever topics you choose. Waiting for a reply. --Al
From: Lewis H. Latimer <staff@blacksandjews.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 18:15:03 -0400
To: blackj@bigmagic.com
Subject: Re:
Al Aronowitz wrote:
DEAR LEWIS: You are absolutely right in every way. Arguing with you would be a waste of time. You certainly can talk circles around me. I am nothing but a menopausal white male who sits in big business board rooms and wields economic and military power. My ancestors established the African slave trade while they were being persecuted by the Cossacks in Russia. I am one of those blind, deaf and dumb whose stumbling resulted in the Hutus and the Tutsis hacking one another to death. I also plead guilty to not mentioning the Serbian murderers just because they aren't black-skinned. And also to not applying some history to these "lessons." Plus I plead no defense to the larger lesson of the "developed" world's policies, I'm even worse than all that. I'm really the leftover relic of an ADL press release. And you actually SHOULD sue my alma mater for massive fraud. Because I'm so stupid, I didn't even recognize that your Email message was dripping with love for me, not hate. Not confrontation. Not antipathy. Not hostility. Not anger. Not extremism. Not irreconcilable. But love, love, love, as much love as one of God's greatest creatures can feel and emit. As for me, I am a propagandist who emits a foul odor. I am one of America's lemmings in addition to being one of the worst scumbags ever born. I can't get anything right. I'm just a guy who's trying to make a name for himself by posing as radical chic and effecting maverick journalism when really I am as mainstream as Tommy Brokaw and as shallow as Geraldo. I have a frame of reference that is an unfit guide. I'm secretly one of the Warner Brothers who employ so many TV you-know-whats. It is as clear as the difference between black and white that your Email message to me was dripping with hope not hate and that I can never, ever out-argue you, so why even try? Love, Al--
Couldn't have said it better! Did I mention that your attempts at sarcasm is sophomoric and ineffective? No answers, no insight, no analysis, nothing but self-serving tripe and wounded ego. Par for the course, however. What you ignore, of course, is you own first volley at the Nation of Islam and Minister Farrakhan. If you are frightened of a response then keep your bloody paws among your own.
PS: I most assuredly do not "love" you. By definition, it is an impossibility.
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 18:16:15 -0400
To: blackj@bigmagic.com
From: Lewis Latimer <staff@blacksandjews.com>
Subject: Re:
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