DP's (now a thread)
KEVIN D. ENGLAND (kengland@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu)
Thu, 25 Jan 1996 13:38:14 -0500 (EST)
Another .02. We should recognize that the DP's, while engaged in the
same discussions as the average "gangta rapper", absolutely do NOT come
from the same class of people (and I do mean CLASS). The DPs are part of a
"Blacademic" tradition that stretches back through the black middle
classes for 150 years or so. The same schools of thought that produced
Ralph Ellison, Franz Fanon, Edward Bratwaite, Richard Wright, and the like.
They are not self-educated, pull yourself up by hook or by crook children
of America's ghettoes (a la KRS-1). These kids are from families that
have mixed "radical" politics with their graduate degrees for 2 or 3
generations..............Er.....more clearly stated.....the DPs and the
Eazy Es may drink together but they are not drawing from the same well.
k