Steve (et. al): As much as I might personally disagree with Crouch's views. I hope he wasn't "fired" for printing them. That's a freedom of speech/freedom of the media issue after all. The "damage" could be repaired in a letter to the editor or better still an opposing column. Hopefully he just quit/was fired after a fit of pique when he was asked to justify certain statements. In a way, after all, his views are a variation of what appeared in LeRoi Jones's (sic) downbeat columns of the 1960s, which exposed the same sort of "four legs good, two legs bad" POV. Baraka was right part of the time, but very wrong other times, just ask Burton Greene. Ken Waxman --- "ssmith36@sprynet.com" <ssmith36@sprynet.com> wrote: > Oddly enough, my copy didn't arrive either. I read
it at a newsstand.
I won't spoil it for you too much, because you really do need to read it to believe that it actually happened. But as I recall, it was called "Putting the White Man in Charge," and sneeringly posited that Douglas is so much more "important" than Crouch's favorite trumpeters (such as Nicholas Payton and Terence Blanchard, either of whom could reduce Douglas to a "puddle" if they were on the same bandstand) because he brought in hip Balkan influences and other Euro-oriented elements.
I think the secondary broadsides against Byron and Mark Turner were something to the effect of their overt intellectualism making them more palatable to white critics. Francis Davis also comes in for ad hominem attack, and Stanley gets to display once more his complete and utter ignorance and intolerance towards hip-hop. All that in just one column!
Honestly, it was such a disgusting display that were I still writing for the magazine, I'd quit. But that wasn't necessary. There's a rumor afloat that Stanley has since been "fired," but honestly, isn't that more than a bit like closing the barn door after the horse's ass has escaped?
Steve Smith ssmith36@sprynet.com
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