Finally, I had smelled the snake oil. It was a foul smell, indeed. I realized, all of a sudden, what it felt like to know, and I don't mean "suspect," that I had been jived, deep and hard, ever since I was born. I knew exactly how Daniel felt that day when "the Man" landed, supposedly, on the moon. As a black man growing up in a racist culture he had to be less naive, less thoroughly propagandized, than I was. Yes, I had been "against the war." But I I thought Kennedy's "best and brightest" had just been incredibly stupid – "incredibly" being the key word. How
A Volcano in the Mind
A Volcano in the Mind
A Volcano in the Mind
Finally, I had smelled the snake oil. It was a foul smell, indeed. I realized, all of a sudden, what it felt like to know, and I don't mean "suspect," that I had been jived, deep and hard, ever since I was born. I knew exactly how Daniel felt that day when "the Man" landed, supposedly, on the moon. As a black man growing up in a racist culture he had to be less naive, less thoroughly propagandized, than I was. Yes, I had been "against the war." But I I thought Kennedy's "best and brightest" had just been incredibly stupid – "incredibly" being the key word. How