'The Blacks: A Clown Show' (Revisited as an American Tragedy)

American Thinker ^ | 03/18/2012 | Clarice Feldman

[Lacey]

In 1961 a play titled "The Blacks : A Clown Show" by the French petty criminal and homosexual prostitute Jean Genet, was the avant garde sensation of New York. At the St. Marks Playhouse it starred a cast of Black actors, then young but now well-known to us all -- people like James Earl Jones, Louis Gossett, Cecily Tyson, Godfrey Cambridge, Maya Angelou, and Roscoe Lee Brown. As I recall --though the cast most certainly changed over time -- it remained one of the longest running off-Broadway plays of that decade. In its review of the play, the NYT's Taubman put his own spin on Genet's meaning and concluded with no evidence at all:

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/the_blacks_a_clown_show_revisited_as_an_american_tragedy.html#ixzz1pTJHCqY4

[reasonisfaith]

Good description of the leftist inclination.

And whenever man pursues his drive to create, he risks entertaining that dark thing lurking in all of us—the urge to be our own creator, our own god. Here the creative urge is not truly creative, in fact it is purely destructive.

The leftist idea of utopianism is the quintessential example of mankind’s foolishness—acting out destruction for its own sake while believing the Lie that they are being creative.

That which is created by man through reverence to the only true Creator will be blessed by Him.

[abclily]

So, it was really ‘Hate and Change’.

[jazusamo]

An excellent piece by Clarice Feldman that references Dr. Thomas Sowell's Racial Quota Fallout.

*PING*
Thomas Sowell

[rockinqsranch]

Thanks for the ping jaz.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“”Tear down the Church. Tear down the family. Tear down the Constitution. Tear down the military. Tear down the entire social contract “”

Obama has done all 5 in just 3 years....and the Republicans in D.C. enable him, and then go hide in a cave!!

[MHGinTN]

Well, the little barry bastard boy told his Mooselimb hosts —in perfect Farsi BTW— that he was one of them. I think it’s about time we believed this commie poofter for what he has said he is, a mooselimb, someone sent to ‘fundamnetally transform America’. He is the ultimate enemy yet sitting in the white hut and facing a feckless cowardly congress while he sweeps aside OUR CONSTITUTION! We may already be past guillotine solutions.

[smoothsailing]

Thanks for the ping, Jaz. Thanks for the post, Lacey.

Nachum, this is an excellent article delving into the origins of Derrick Bell’s Critical Race Theory and it’s influence on Obama and members of his administration, notably Holder and Cassandra Butts re. the Black Panther case.

[Nachum]

Thanks smoothsailing,

I had not considered it before. I will add it as basic information to the file I created on Obama and William Bell. Good point.

[combat_boots]

“So, it was really ‘Hate and Change’.”

Or, hate and chains.
Or, hate and jihad.

[smoothsailing]

I figured you’d be interested. It’s another relevent subset of all the neo-Marxist crap Obama believes in and is attempting to force on the rest of us.

[Defiant]

A powerful piece by one of the best writers out there.

[Defiant]

It is foundational to the Left that they can only build something great by first destroying what is already in place in society.

In that belief, they are kind of like the Underwear Gnomes from South Park. Instead of:
1. Steal Underwear.
2. ?????
3. Profits

it's:
1. Destroy society.
2. ???????
3. Paradise.

Lots of intellectual firepower on this thread tonight. I am enjoying all the posts.