Maya Angelou was a horrid monster.

DS_ROCKS! on May 29, 2014 at 4:24 pm

Tyrone Greene

Dark and lonely on the summer night.
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord.
Watchdog barking – Do he bite?
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord.
Slip in his window,
Break his neck!
Then his house
I start to wreck!
Got no reason —
What the heck!
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord.
C-I-L-L …
My land – lord …

This is about as good as anything she wrote.

john on May 29, 2014 at 4:29 pm

Damn the Dixie Chick have better lyrics remember Goodbye Earl?

Jeanette Victoria on May 29, 2014 at 5:34 pm

English departments throughout the country have given up any pretense of serious scholarship. Half the courses, at least, in almost every serious English department are devoted to victim literature. Half the contents, at least, of survey courses are devoted to victim literature. Even those courses purporting to study serious writers manage to do so from a PC context, how they were male chauvinists, pro-imperialist, etc. This is the atmosphere in which Angelou flourished.

When I am trying to find good literature or literary scholarship, it is unusual to find anything post-1970. Yes, there are a few recent works that are good, but not very many. The best ones predate World War II, and are still timely.

Little Al on May 29, 2014 at 5:35 pm

Yes, Little Al. This is why the government, insofar as it should support higher education at all, should not support the humanities any more. I’m inclined to add the social sciences to the ban as well, but this is more iffy.

skzion on May 29, 2014 at 5:54 pm

What people don’t realize is how the black folk grew our economy higher than it could ever have grown without them.

When blacks moved into the white areas in the 60’s they acted like fools with their shucking and jiving and the whites didn’t want to live around that shit, so they worked two jobs and sold their houses and moved away to the suburbs. They built new houses so the forest and lumber industries grew and the hardware stores grew and millions of dollars surged into the economy building roads so the whites could get to and from work.

Then the blacks started robbing and stealing because they were lazy, stupid and unqualified for jobs because they jived around at school instead of learning, and the whites had to buy replacement products so the economy grew even stronger.

Since the blacks were unemployed they started hanging around drinking malt liquor and the malt liquor industry had to expand and add more workers so the economy grew stronger again.

The flustered blacks started shooting people and the hospitals grew and new ones were built and more cops, nurses and doctors were required.

People had to buy guard dogs and security alarm companies grew stronger. Pet stores then sprung up everywhere to sell stuff for the guard dogs.

Then the blacks were thrown into jail and new jails had to be built and more guards were hired and the economy grew even stronger than before.

Then the Democrats created Welfare, so all the blacks went on welfare and the whites had to work harder to support them, and the economy grew stronger. Then the blacks bought fancy cars and the auto industry grew and TV makers were thrilled cause they could produce shows like ‘Cops’ and ‘Most Wanted’ and whites bought more guns and lots and lots of ammunition to keep the blacks out of their stuff, so gun manufacturing jobs grew.

So you see, we owe a lot to dear Maya, so stop being so judgmental!

Blinky McMullin Jr. on May 29, 2014 at 6:14 pm

@ Blinky take your bigoted ass to St. Elsewhere. Because of you, I just had an epiphany of Linton Kwesi Johnson song lyric “We’ re going to smash their brains in, cause they aint got nothin in them” He was singing about you.

Big D on May 29, 2014 at 6:39 pm

Maya Maya wrote some prose
Much about nothin, although she thinks she knows,
she hate da jew and da white
all her words, were just black spite
she danced at the purple onion
till some whites, made her into somethin
now she’s gone and the libtards cry
while we all know, its just a lie

haha….sorry..see,any idiot can do that

HK on May 29, 2014 at 8:49 pm

@ HK Lol
@ D.S rocks and this Blinky twit. Really violence? Or is it a metaphor. Grow up dummies.

BigD on May 29, 2014 at 10:01 pm

So glad to know I am not alone in my opinion that Maya Angelou was a no-talent hack who only rose to any kind of prominence because she is black. Yet, like so many of her “brothers and sisters of color” no matter how successful she became, she continued to whine in every forum about what a victim of discrimination she was. She should not have been the poet laureate of the United States, she should have instead been the poster girl for Affirmative Action and discrimination against whites. Unfortunately Oprah took that crown long ago and is most teluctant to relinquish it.

MIGirl on May 29, 2014 at 11:01 pm

@ D.s rocks. Yeah I knew what you were attempting to infer, clown bigot. Puke.

BigD on May 29, 2014 at 11:44 pm

@ Mtgirl. Oprah is the poster girl woman for affirmative action?

BigD on May 29, 2014 at 11:46 pm

She had an amazing talent for self promotion. An equally great talent at reading. Says a bunch of nonsense but she says it with such conviction the Doprah watching bims love it.

I still love the “I CAN wash dishes” line, though.

Jeff_W on May 30, 2014 at 12:13 am

She was no Langston Hughes. Hughes did not rely on bigotry to get his point across in his poems.

Big D, you have to agree with that one.

Jonathan E. Grant on May 30, 2014 at 12:03 pm

Hughes was better than Angelou, but he was closely identified with the Communist Party for a number of years, visited the Soviet Union (sic) in the early 30s when millions of agricultural workers were being slaughtered and anti-semitic regulations were being promulgated. During these years he wrote poetry which glorified the Soviet Union (sic). Naturally this part of Hughes is not what is stressed in Harlem Renaissance courses, documentaries and books.

Little Al on May 30, 2014 at 12:13 pm

And then there’s Hughes’ masterpiece “Fine Clothes to the Jew” which is described as, er, um, departing from sentimental notions of Jewish people.

Little Al on May 30, 2014 at 12:24 pm

@ J. E. Grant, I agree, I was not a fan of Maya A, poetry. Never did understand why she was so revered, but I admit, she was definitely shoved down our the black community throats, never understood why, never. I believe my mother said the same thing years ago, “I don’t understand all the fuss over her”

@ Nadie lol, I think we all miss the Skunkster.

Big D on May 30, 2014 at 1:12 pm

Stacey Dash joins Bill Oreilly as a contributor to his show. Oh I can’t wait till the Black folks begin to diss her and call her a no good sellout, when really she just has her own mind. She’s going to take a lickin’ but I like her more now.

Big D on May 30, 2014 at 1:19 pm

It’s an old joke,but it fits here:

I’ve read better,more intelligent, poetry on the walls of public restrooms.

The average, dirty Limerick makes more sense, and has more truth, than anything the Miss Prissy of Poetry,ever wrote.

CharlesMartel on May 30, 2014 at 1:26 pm

Debbie already addressed the Skunky issue a while back. She is tied up with work, and will be back “in the summer.”

As for Stacy Dash, she has already taken heat from the mainstream black community several months ago, for something she said.

Alfredo from Puerto Rico on May 30, 2014 at 2:05 pm

Thank you, Alfredo. It sounds like she’s as busy as you.

nadie on May 30, 2014 at 10:18 pm

I’m sure that’s true, nadie. Don’t know how I found the time these past two weeks, but that could be over soon, again, for who knows how long. But I’m glad I found the time, especially in consideration of the PBA (Peanut Brigade Assault) on the first Maya Angelou thread. Those people wouldn’t know critical thinking or the “fairness” they love to spout about if it bit them on the leg and held on like a pit bull.

Alfredo from Puerto Rico on May 30, 2014 at 10:40 pm

@ Nadie “theyre birds of a feather” That comment is disgusting.
but you exhibit some quick wit at times, but by the aforementioned comment, you exhibit extreme foolishness, like DS Rocks.

BigD on May 31, 2014 at 2:02 pm