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From: leeway@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.music
Subject: Re: Ignited Negroes
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Date: Sat, 24-Mar-84 11:55:59 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 24 11:55:59 1984
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Reply-To: leeway@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
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As long as we're discussing Ignited Negroes, we ought to mention one of
the major literary instances...to be found in Rudyard Kipling's science
fiction story, "Easy as. A.B.C.," as written in the early 1900s.

The setting was a world after some great war (everyone sort of reflexively
kept six months food and water in their homes).  There was no formal
government except for the Aerial Board of Control, which permitted war
(and anything else) as long as it did not "interfere with the traffic and
all that that implies" (last five words italicized).

Chicago had one famous work of art left over from a previous generation,
a famous artist's statue,  The Nigger in Flames--"dedicated to the
eternal memory of the Justice of the People."

More details on request.

--Lee Gold