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Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison: You're not fed up with it? Black people in poverty, black people rapping, black people are slaves, black people murdered by police, whole soaring narratives about black folks in dire circumstances who still manage to maintain their dignity before they die.I mean, I'm not saying these things aren't real, but we're also more than this. It's like so many writers like you can't envision us without some white boot on our necks.
Sintara Golden: Do you get angry at Bret Easton Ellis or Charles Bukowski for writing about the downtrodden? Or is your ire reserved strictly for black women?
Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison: Nobody reads Bukowski thinking his is the definitive white expereince, but people... white people read your book and confine us to it. They think we're all like that
Sintara Golden: Do you get angry at Bret Easton Ellis or Charles Bukowski for writing about the downtrodden? Or is your ire reserved strictly for black women?
Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison: Nobody reads Bukowski thinking his is the definitive white expereince, but people... white people read your book and confine us to it. They think we're all like that
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If you're okay feeding
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people's base desires for profit
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I'm okay with giving the market what it wants
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That's how drug dealers excuse themselves
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And I think drugs should be legal
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But you're not fed up with it
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You know Black people in poverty
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Black people rapping
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Black people as slaves
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Black people murdered by the police
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Old soaring narratives about
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Okay
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Black folks in dire circumstances
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who still managed to maintain their dignity before they die
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I mean I'm not saying these things aren't real
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but we're also more than this
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And it's like so many writers like you can't envision us
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without some white boot on our necks
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Do you get angry at Bret Easton Ellis
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or Charles Bukowski
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for writing about the downtrodden
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Or is your ire strictly reserved for Black women
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Nobody reads Bukowski thinking
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his is the definitive white experience
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But people white people
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read your book and confine us to it
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They think that we're all like that
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Movie Summary
A novelist who's fed up with the establishment profiting from Black entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of the hypocrisy and madness he claims to disdain.
