springbreak woodsheds: clocking pages and the nature of endgames

SUNDAY MORNING

last day of miniwoodshed, got some work done, clocked some pages
but lord knows i wish i had done more - but aint that always the case

okay okay i know what you want, commentary - lets look at repubs voting
for hillary in order to weaken obama - she got 119,000 of them in texas and beat

obama by 101,000- the word among repub strategists is keep hillary in the race

"It's as simple as, I don't think McCain can beat Obama if Obama is the Democratic choice," says one in texas "I do believe Hillary can mobilize enough [anti-Clinton] people to keep her out of office."

so my question is are repubs allowed to vote in penn
what about the other states left, when does this farce end

obamas shot in penn seem to be rooted in the white male swing voter
read an article say he needs to emphasize his community organizing roots

show he understand their problems and has an idea of addressing
them beyond amorphous calls for change - speaking of which

i see obama had to reject and denounce pastor wright - brother wright
maybe a little too oldschool for the strategic moment

some blackfolk gon charge obama for this one but the players
UNDERSTAND THE GAME and gon give him room to play it

21st century stylee

this hnn article says there will be 3 issues facing new presidents - economy, healthcare and national security - then makes case obamas position on all 3 more viable, that on national security both clinton and mccain basically want to do more of the same and that obama is the only real democrat left running

article say we got a serious choice to make - and the long campaign has been good for
fleshing folk out and how on so many levels we cant afford to blow this

marching on the crossroads, where
the yellow cross the dog

the shape of the future lies in
the choice of the moment

WORD by
trickmaster

wouldbe prophet of
the hoodoo way

FRIDAY 857 pm

a good day, not a great day but a good day

interesting newsweek article on race and gender in american politics
let me try to give you the gist of it, ill clean it up later

law review article: unconscious race and gender bias in the 2008 election
this columnist was interviewing the authors - this a synopsis of what it said:

they say even folk who profess egalitarian belief generally harbor instinctive bias
against blacks, say 80 - 90% of americans have mild bias against blacks - 30 to 40% more so

say credentials that help white job applicants dont necessarily help black applicants
and that the 2008 election is like an elaborate job interview

say with blacks folk have implicit animus, with women implicit stereotypes

say two kinds of judgments, the automatic unconscious system, the implicit
and the slower reason based deductive judgment, the explicit

to fight stereotype women arent leaders clinton has to carry herself as a strong leader
say she is able to fight that bias explicitly w/no cost to herself

obama has a tougher job because bias against blacks is more of an animus
black is considered negative without regard to specific, blacks bad whites good

so obama has to work against being perceived as black, folk have to interpret him with positive energy
imagery american tend to associate with whites, so his campaign has amorphous goals

like hope and aspiration because cant embrace black goals

say white voters have at the last moment a TENDENCY TO FLINCH when voting for obama
the bradley effect - just cant bring themselves to push the button

say in the general election clinton will be forced to appeal to more voters who want
women to be conventional helpmeets

that in the general election obama will face fewer whites who care about a post racial future
liberal democrats like the idea that race wont matter, republicans and independents not so much

say there is also a correlation between 'blacks' and 'foreign' which will attempt to tar
obama with his middlename and questioning his patriotism

which will be a problem in the general running against an authentic war hero
say winning a long tough primary will address concern about whether he is electable

say obama cannot play the victim card, anything that draw attention to race will hurt him

"Studies suggest that when you press people on their gender-stereotypical biases, they kind of laugh it off. Because it's not such a hot issue. They're like, "Whatever. I'm not sexist." But if you press them on their racial biases, particularly in regards to blacks, one of two things happens.  If they're low on explicit racial prejudice, they become contrite, apologetic, they want to know what they can do to overcome it. But if they are high on explicit racial bias, they become angry and antagonistic. When you accuse whites who harbor certain levels of racism of racist behavior, it actually makes them angry towards you. And that's why Obama can't afford to push back. He has to acknowledge and affirm that he's black so as not to alienate black voters, but he can't do it in such a way as to raise anxieties among white voters."

say clinton battling explicit assumptions, obama implicit ones:

"There's a real split here about implicit associations and explicit ones. The efforts to articulate concerns about racism in the way you described are explicit efforts. Look at yourself, think about it, examine the data--that's a deliberative process meant to get people to reason through the problem and confront themselves in a different way. But you can't fight implicit biases with reasoned argument. It's not how they work. They work on an intuitive, affective, emotional level. Pushing back just makes people angry. You don't see that working very well in the research. And it wouldn't work in this campaign either. Instead, the candidates should combat implicit bias implicitly--Hillary has to look like a leader all the time; Obama looks inspirational. You fight fire with fire. "

say the rnc and mccain will avoid race or gender baiting in the election
but depend on ancillary forces to make these attacks, obamas youthful drugs

his patriotism, his pastor, expect these ancillary attacks, expect them to be effective

say it doesnt cost mccain anything to disassociate himself from hussein attacks and
in denying it just further impresses it on the minds of is the dpopulace.

"The other question here is how Obama and Clinton may tear themselves apart heading into the convention and the general election by raising all these questions about each other. They're provoking these implicit biases among the general electorate as we speak--and the Republican Party may not have to do much next fall."

personally i think the superdelegates tod hillary to chill or else
she hant been throwing the kitchen sink lately, having to work thru

ancillary forces like ferraro

now ive pretty much just restated what it said in the article
i cut the excess and tried to cover the salient points

may clean it up, make it mine, may just leave it, acknowledge the steal and
keep on pushing, original article was a mighty fine read

a luta continua
rdoc

FRIDAY  1120am

didnt do a lick of work yesterday, and morning almost gone still nothing
once i realized im in my endgame i believe it scared me - just flat out scared me,

its like okay, when i finish this one i should have a real novel
after all these years im almost afraid to have no more excuses

so im sitting here at the SACRED DESK about to face the beast one more again
got to go into longhand now, word by word got to move these last 50 pages to higher ground

when you need good rich critical narrative, longhand seems to work best some primal connection w/the hand the mind and the pen, and the slower

pace gives your mind TIME TO PLAY W/THE WORDS as you create them

got some good commentary for you but wont be able
to focus until i see if i get a good days work in

if you hear from me this evening you will know im good to go - clocking pages
IF YOU DONT, MEAN IM STILL RUNNING SCARED

pray for me
rdoc



THURSDAY 330 AM

okay, i figured out why im dragging, its the endgame, last 40 pages or so
all these threads have to be tied up - the novel has to become transcendent

- so many novels fall down in the endgame, this where the rubber meets the road

WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT SOMETHING ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES PAT MOODY ONCE PUT ON MY MIND, I WAS DOING A CLASS FOR ONE OF HER PROJECT ADVANCE SEMINARS AND SAID MY WORK IS FEEL GOOD WORK AND FEEL GOOD DONT GET NO RESPECT IN LITERATURE AND SHE SAID ALMOST ANGRILY I DONT REMEMBER THE EXACT WORDS BUT BASICALLY THAT LITERATURE WAS SUPPOSE TO EXPLORE THE DEEP DARK UNFACEABLE IN THE HUMAN CONDITION AND IT WAS LIKE A REVELATION TO ME, I THINK OF IT WHEN IM WORKING THIS NOVEL NOW -  IM STILL WHO I AM, IM STILL A DELTA SOULDOCTOR AND THIS NOVEL STILL GON BE A HEALING SPELL BUT I GOT TO GET THERE DEEP . . . GOT TO GO DEEP . . . THANKS PAT . . . GOOD LOOKING OUT

just keep pushing rick, inch by inch, step by step, PARAGRAPH BY PARAGRAPH - 4 more days before i have to return to the planet,

been listening to country and western all week - does that
surprise you dear regulators - thats good working music

got to switch to bessie soon, me and terry adkins spose to do a bessie smith performance
collaboration as part of an exhibit he doing at the community folk art center next month

looking forward to that - more time out of my schedule but what can you do - some projects you dont say no to -

okay let me give you some commentary and get back to work
lets look at my beloved kenya:

i am not confident that this deal has solved the problem
the tangled issues of land reform and ethnic redistribution

ARE complicated in that leaders and their families BEEN beneficiaries
of a system that has rewarded government officials and assorted elites

with land taken from the dispossessed since independence, which just
aggravated a legacy of dispossession under british policy during colonialism

we got generations of resentment at play here

neither politician has shown the vision it will take to truly address this problem and
instead of demanding redress aggrieved kenyans have turned on their neighbors

tribalism, land reform and ethnic redistribution are entrenched issues that have not
been addressed by this agreement and as long as they have not kenya will smolder

may the GODS BE
GOOD to her

i find hope in the union of
mark and boke, here i find

BLESSINGS

ALL MY LOVE
rdoc




WEDNESDAY

hello world, been working all morning and coming up with TRASH i just got to accept
and move on - best i can do without stopping my forward motion

okay, todays commentary, lets do this quick:

geraldo say that since obama and deval used the samewords must be some sort of black genius camp where impressive blacks are given marching orders

i wish - mission control indeed

geraldo say it leave a sour note in his throat - sorry about that raldo, weve always had players , just more of them getting thru

what else - check out BOING BOING, interesting techie site, it . . . .
you know, i aint feeling this, maybe later . . .

need to see if i can get me a couple more paragraphs today
for every good page look like i got to clock 20 bad ones

BEST I GET BUSY

in struggle
rdoc