Well, well, looky here! Guest Natasha Woods is back in town!

Natasha, you were right on the money that I meant #6. But perhaps you didn't get my allusion to the novel "The Spook That Sat By The Door", written in 1969 by the African American author Sam Greenlee.

Check out this excerpt from the wikipedia article about that book:

["The Spook That Sat By The Door" is] "A book written by Sam Greenlee in 1969. It was made into a film in 1973. An explosive, award-winning novel in the black literary tradition, "The Spook Who Sat by the Door" is both a satire of the civil rights problems in the United States in the late 1960s and a serious attempt to focus on the issue of black militancy. Dan Freeman, the "spook who sat by the door," is enlisted in the CIA's elitist espionage program as its token black. Upon mastering agency tactics, however, he drops out to train young Chicago blacks as "Freedom Fighters." As a story of one man's reaction to ruling-class hypocrisy, the book is autobiographical and personal. As a tale of a man's reaction to oppression, it is universal.

It also reflects the CIA's odd tradition of giving training to persons and/or groups that later use what they have learned against them".


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spook_Who_Sat_By_The_Door

-snip-

Needless to say, I'm not going to waste my energy hoping that Clarence Thomas will see the light, leave neoconservatism behind, and actively work against it by using the powerful legal means at his disposal. But, still, it would be very sweet if that occurred.

**

Btw, Guest Natasha, when's the last time that you took a look see at this thread on children's rhymes that you started? thread.cfm?threadid=102055&messages=37 "Folklore: Play Ground Hand Jives"