How To Pretend Systemic Racism Doesn't Exist - SOME MORE NEWS

But. Does Redlining still happen? I'll bet it doesn't. And I happen to've read the published work of Dr. Arthur Jensen, and to agree with all I read in it. And I've already said how much I despise Black and Jewish and Irish and Hilbilly culture and music--hiphop anyway. And I long ago concluded that there could be but one way for anyone trapped in those cultures to emerge clean from them, and that would be by honest, color-blind Individualism (or possibly  Unitarianism). This is how I can have had, back in the day when it was appropriate for me to have done so, a couple of fine, and very different, black lovers (one of whom was a for-real, no-sex, straight bromance, where we like slept together but didn't fuck--and, yes, it was weird being esteemed for my whiteness).

So let's talk a little about Scott Joplin. I would point out the thing that, in my estimation, makes his music precious to us: It's Charm, ladies and gentlemen. As in Chopin and Tschaikovsky. As in Alfons Mucha of the 1890's and 19-oughts. It's like the curve of the ass of a thirty-year-old male soccer player. There is nothing else in the universe like it--It just is. Daüber mussen wir schweigen.