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The Questions: Prelude to the Devil Beats His Wife


The Questions

Is a white man the hidden force within blackness?

If in fact the Trump election shows a pattern in Black History, what is that pattern? If in fact the Trump election shows a pattern in American History, what is that pattern? If there is something cyclical about the African American condition or the binary-where exactly is it written? Do our scholars study patterns or facts? Do they study facts and then discern patterns? Is there anyone who studies the patterns first, and then discerns the facts? Is our notion of nuance, precision, and detail applied to patterns? Is our notion of nuance, precision, and detail applied to facts? When we discover, do we discover patterns? Of what use is a pattern in determining future reality?

Though Obama is the first Black President, does his Presidency reflect a pattern in relationship to the black? What patterns of American History influenced the Obama Presidency? What patterns of American History influenced the Trump Presidency? Do we imagine Trump to be a pattern? Do we imagine Obama to not be a pattern? If we know certain patterns does that mean they change? Do Trump supporters imagine Obama and Black Lives Matter to be a pattern?

What are the internal concepts of being black? Do they have any affect on what happens to the black externally? What are the internal concepts of being an activist? How does activism situate itself within the binary? Do activist seek to change patterns? What is required to change a pattern? How do activists use facts to change patterns? Does argument suffice to change pattern? Does well crafted literature change patterns within a culture? Does literature arise from pattern change?

Is Trump part of the black? Is a white man the hidden force within blackness? Is a white man we are angry with most worthy of activism? Is activism capable of changing patterns? Is black a pattern as compared to identity? What are the limits of blackness? What are the limits of the whiteness? Is whiteness a pattern? Are Trump’s actions more pattern based than individual?

Is the current success of African American writers a pattern or genuine achievement? What is the relationship between patterns and genuine achievements? If African Americans made “progress” under the Obama years, what is the effect of the Trump Presidency on that progress? Is progress so tenuous that it can come and go so quickly? Is the current stage of writer’s award somehow influenced by Black Lives Matter, Obama, and Trump? If black writer’s have won more awards because of the environment, how then does the environment make its way to the page? Given their recent success, is it not some form of privilege?

If the binary is composed of black and white, is there not a certain privilege given to the black? If someone clearly states you are the worst, have they made you important? Will the binary ever go away? Is there anything more than the binary? Does the binary ever change?

Where do white writers in mass submit to blacks? Where do most whites work for blacks? Where do blacks have the space to fail? Can we imagine white literature if the majority of editors of that literature and all the publishing companies where black? Is literature important? Why is it important? If it is important, then what are the effects of such a small amount of African American literature being produced during slavery? Is the absence of written literature one of the reason blacks were enslaved? Are blacks really producing literature if they lack they means of production to do so? Are blacks distributing literature? If so, where and under what conditions?

Has there ever been a more successful period for Black writers? Has there ever been a more successful period for African American people? Has there ever been a more powerful perception of our success than the Obama presidency? How are black activism and a black presidency perceived by the majority of Americans?

What is won can be taken away?

What is given can be taken away?

What time is it?


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