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Sep 17, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read Read on X
Irascible, brilliant, challenging, uncompromising,culturally astute,humorous, purposeful, superior intellect, unorthodox sweetness, mentor, griot, an American poet, music, & cultural critic; syndicated columnist, novelist, and biographer, and beloved friend Stanley Crouch is dead
As a young man new to New York, he was a cultural pied piper who challenged my commitment to my art, my understanding of the legacy of the Black experience handed to me for stewardship, and the obligation I had to defining my unique path & contribution to civilization
He was a mythical guru that shepherded me from jazz club to club of NY taking care of a poor student with drink, education in the music, & uplifting my spirit.“What are you working on, Motherfucker?” was his clarion call to step up to an intellectual altar with a point of view
He was a raconteur of the highest order. Obnoxious, cantankerous, and rude with some regularity, but with an intellect that impressed and charmed him back in your good grace. He was loving kind, loyal and devoted in his way.
And what a wordsmith... these posts are my feeble attempt to honor that. He had a way with his writing that was completely authentic to his personality & spirit. For those of you who never met him, read him and you will. He’s Mouse to Easy Rawlins, Monk if he could write. Beloved

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Aug 27
Today in Louisiana, Governor Jeff Landry signed an executive order preventing to teaching of a Harvard Law School class from the ‘80s: Critical Race Theory. Derrick Bell taught the class demonstrating how discrimination was memorialized in law.
The GOP has now changed the meaning of Critical Race Theory (CRT) as any teaching of American history that tells the truth, including its racist, discriminatory, and violent past. This is an attempt at revisionist history and is a movement that defunds education and bans books.
Allow me to publicly rebuke Gov. Landry’s revisionism and remind the world of the violent racist history in the State of Louisiana where he governs:
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Aug 26
Black men voters have asked me why I support the Democratic Party. I welcome the questions and demands. For your consideration: Democrats’ Policies Beneficial for the Black Community

-Creation of Social Security. Economic safety net after years of working towards retirement.
Creation of Medicare and Medicaid. Healthcare safety net for middle/working class and underserved.
-Obamacare: millions of Black Americans with access to healthcare, protection against discrimination practices denying coverage.
-Protection of Reproductive Rights for Women
-Civil Rights Bill that ended Jim Crow laws and segregation
-Voters Right Bill protecting the rights to vote
-Raising the minimum wage.
-The Community Development Legislation combating banking discrimination and funding business capital for Blacks discriminated against and denied lending
Creation of Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs)in underserved communities without banking institutions funding Black entrepreneurs, economic development, and creating jobs.
-$2 Billion to Black farmers discriminated against by the USDA.
-Student Loan forgiveness
-Increase of the Pell Grants, 68% of which go to Black students.
-$15 Billion to HBCUs
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Jul 20
The Democratic Party Leaders and Donor Class have campaigned against President Biden because of their fear and timidity about polls. They haven’t been challenged by an opposing campaign of the rank and file Democrat voters. Their campaign has been successful for the past 3 weeks.
What they don’t know is what is happening with the ONLY constituency that votes for them 90% of the time, African Americans.
1. African Americans are ready today to vote and support President Biden, contrary to the misinformation of the GOP campaign and the Democratic leaders. 2. This community is never a part of the polls. Like the Nielsen Ratings on TV and radio, it has been common knowledge for generations we aren’t ever polled
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Jul 18
There is a complicity between the media and Democratic leadership. They have independently decided to take Biden out of the race and normalize the criminality of a con artist; a man that led a revolt to overthrow the government with a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The media has promoted revisionist history about the treasonous behavior of election denial, attempts to defraud the election with fake electors, and pressuring State governments to change the vote.
The media allows the lies denying an economy that is strong, at full employment, deflation, higher wages, high domestic oil production, the return of manufacturing jobs, and the lowest unemployment in generations. Instead we are told this doesn’t exist.
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Jul 14
There is no place in America for political violence. This assassination attempt was a dark day for America. I condemn the attempt to murder the former President. America knows the pain of political violence. When a Republican President was assassinated. When a Democratic President was assassinated. America knows the pain of political violence.
We know the pain of that violence when thousands were murdered for attempting to register and vote for decades. America knows the pain of political violence like The Colfax Massacre in Louisiana, the Wilmington Massacre in North Carolina, Goodman, Chaney & Swerner (Black, White, Christian, and Jewish) murdered for registering voters.
America knows the pain of political violence, like the women of the National Women's Party, arrested on their hunger strike, tortured and forced fed because they wanted the right to vote.
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Jul 2
Today in America, this Supreme Court gave criminal immunity to the Presidency, eliminating the conceit that no one is above the law. President Trump will never go to trial for inciting a riot and the attempted overthrow of a free and fair election. African Americans have been here before.
Americans tonight are feeling the profound impact & dissatisfaction with the SCOTUS that for generations African Americans have known. The Dred Scott case that denied American citizenship to Black folk. Plessy v. Fergusson that upheld “separate but equal” Jim Crow segregation
The anger, fear, & foreboding is real. It’ll be years to return the rule of law & the guardrails of the constitution. Democracy is threatened. Donald Trump tried to overthrow the constitutional transfer of power. He should be disqualified. When evil people plot, good people plan.
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