Potentially provocative as the subject line may be, this is a really interesting read. It was originally published on Chauncey's blog, which occasionally shifts into an even more provocatively-named parallel universe where Sarah Palin self-describes as a "proud black woman" (and is dubbed by the press a "welfare queen").
Here's the blog: http://wearerespectablenegroes.blogspot.com/ The original blog posts ledes with a DS9 clip of Ben Sisko in a Prophet-spawned alternate reality where he's the editor of a 1940s SF mag. 'Chauncey' seems not to be a man who minces words, though he does occasionally filet and roulade them. He seems to be a big Harry Turrtledove fan (which is where the title quote comes from), but I haven't been able to see that he writes SF himself. Would be worth looking at if he did, I think. (BTW: The links that don't work seem mostly to be Amazon affiliate links; I think there must have been something wrong about the process he used to copy them from his affiliate link into the blog. i left a comment for him about that. If you want to follow them from the blog, you just need to add a ":" to the protocol string to make them work.) On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 5:19 PM, SteveC <[email protected]> wrote: > Couldn't resist that Subject line. And the quote is accurate, although > the context is what makes it interesting. > > "We Don’t Live on the Moon Or Have Flying Cars, But We Do Have a Black > President: What Science Fiction Can Teach Us About Barack Obama" > > > http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2011/07/16/we-dont-live-on-the-moon-or-have-flying-cars-but-we-do-have-a-black-president-what-science-fiction-can-teach-us-about-barack-obama/ > > None of the links in that article work. Here are a couple that looked > worth pursuing. > > > http://www.amazon.com/American-Science-Fiction-Isiah-Lavender/dp/0253222591/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1310850923&sr=8-1 > Race in American Science Fiction, by Isiah Lavender III > > http://afrofuturism.net/ > Afrofuturism > > Steve > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. > > -- -- eric scoles | [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en.
