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March 15, 2000
Poetry
For Barbara, Who Called Me "Nigger" 
"The cement around Glenvar Elementary /still blistered in the heat, /even though it's September, /almost rust-splashed Fall." drylongso
Review
African American Life on the Southern Hunting Plantation I concede that I am of another generation and politically far removed it seems from the gestalt underlying this work. Living (and working) on a Southern hunting plantation was, as one learns from the oral accounts and photographs, a unique experience compared to the lives of other blacks during that time. However, this hermetically sealed world does not acknowledge the larger picture of life for African Americans in the wake of slavery and onward by even acknowledging the disparity. Some of us are still on the plantation.
Interview
Tom Feelings The Middle Passage is the culmination of twenty years' work. "I was trying to create images that call up vividly the pain of the past in order to show the strength of the people who survived and how essential this story is to everyone in terms of its healing potential." said Feelings.
Review
Female Slave Conditioning and the Novels of Toni Morrison Clearly, after any human had been forced to endure torture and other horrors prescribed by Lynch, survival on any level would have been no mean feat. To counter some of the blame-the-victim rhetoric African American people constantly endure, multicultural writers of various genres have examined the physical, mental and psychological effects of slavery.
Poetry
In the Beauty Salon on Saturday Afternoon "Snip clip click nickle shears /on what at one time /would have been 'nigger naps'" drylongso
Poetry
RANT AND RAVE....BIGOT! "my neighbor the bigot /may be your buddy or 'friend'" drylongso
Poetry
KENDO "Girl everything can be a weapon /beware I am dangerous in the rain" drylongso
Poetry
Juliana Queen of the Netherlands "Juliana Queen of the Netherlands /dreamed I drowned in the Wad Den Zee" drylongso
March 10, 2000
Review
Portraits of Our Violent Past: Without Sanctuary Site Review This site catalogs an extraordinary visual legacy of what had become tragically ordinary events at one time in our nation's history--lynchings. Collector, James Allen, has accumulated photographs and photo-postcards of lynchings in America and subsequently published ninety-eight of them in book form.
March 1, 2000
Review
The Art of Debate Logical fallacies are ineffective attempts to "one-up" the debate opponent based on slightly askew interpretations of the points being argued. drylongso.com
Review
Afro and All …the finished product was a beautiful French-speaking, yellowish-red hued, intelligent young woman in her 20s, who didn't necessarilyfit the profile of black America. drylongso.com
Review
Racial Covenants: A History Past and Present The court determined that Mr. McGhee was a Negro, because he looked like one, and his wife looked "like the mulatto type." The court ordered the McGhees to vacate the property within 90 days, and restrained them from using or occupying the premise in the future. drylongso.com
Review
Hair It Is "Sit down and chill; you're tripping like you never seen black folks get their hair done! . . . She is a progressive, radical feminist who has suffered racial and sexual oppression. Why then didn't she, a black woman, know about the long notorious love/hate relationship between black women and their hair?" drylongso.com
Fiction
May Roses in the South Deborah felt that their new arrangement had been a sensitive response to a fantasy she had voiced one night in early March, a couple of months earlier, after one of their extended love-making sessions. But even the new arrangement was now not enough. drylongso.com
Fiction
Maggie "it would have opened with a boy and his dog out in the woods with a gun the boy would have been trying to decide whether or not to take his dog with him when he decided to blow his brains out" drylongso.com