That should get some hits on Google... Anyhow, now that I have your attention, I'd like to redirect you to this customarily brilliant article by Adam Curtis on the subject of...gay white negroes!
It's about Norman Mailer's campaign to become mayor of New York.
And gay white negroes. It's also about Boris Johnson, sort of...
Choice quotes:
"This outsider culture had originally been created, Mailer wrote, by blacks in response to racial oppression and violence. But for the "white negroes" that culture was then co-opted in order to give a meaning and grandeur to their psychopathic narcissism."
"Today it is possible to argue that we have all become gay white negroes. We all listen to "edgy urban" music, spend our time in the gym, go shopping and groom ourselves, take lots of drugs, have sex and then spend the rest of the time talking to our friends about the impossibility of finding real love and connection in the world."
"Instead the white negro hipster has actually become one of the central conservative pillars of our time - because their real function is now simply to prop up an increasingly shaky system of credit and rolling consumption."
"And one wonders where are the real outsiders of out time? Who are the new "white negroes" of our age?"
Indeed! WHO?
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