Prometheus 6

It's a pretty random weekend.

I cheeck the referral logs and found myself on one of those blog searchs, looking for reactions to Ward Connerly's spiritual heir and his Esquire screed. Spent a little time on at Richard Prince's joint.

The current issue of Esquire magazine—"Man at His Best"—features an essay called "The Manifesto of Ascendancy for the Modern American Nigger" that argues before Esquire's white, male, affluent readership that the people the author labels with that description are "the oppressed minority within our minority" and that "we need to send niggers on their way."

The decision by Esquire to publish the piece, written by John Ridley, a black novelist and producer, has prompted William Jelani Cobb, a black author and writer who teaches history at Spelman College, to call for a boycott of the magazine and its advertisers.

I can't boycott what I don't buy...Esquire has been too white-bread for me for decades. GQ is better for style as well.

I can boycott Ridley's books, though. I buy a LOT of books. I already bought Undercover Brother, but I can skip his other scripting efforts. I'm a big comic book reader too...all of his are off my list, graphic novels included.