THE MAN SAYS YES

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“Blacks students… you get yourselves ready for a lifetime of multiple choices in the white world, and you learn that answer—none of the above!” These are the angry words of Henry Prudhomme, aging black radical who describes himself as having been militant “long before Stokely Charmichael was born.” 

 

He’s out to dispose of Achille T. Washington, the Uncle Tom president of all-black Bundy University, who burns cats, beats his wife, rapes faculty women, and even forces himself on young co-eds. 

 

Then there’s Bo Green, who comes to the Bundy campus with his white wife and finds himself caught in the maelstrom of madness and discontent—with surprising consequences…

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My uncle’s PR man was laying for us in the Dallas airport. His domed straw hat sat very quietly on top of his big black head, and he had cultivated suggestions of a cool mandarin beard. As we followed him, poppidy-plop, his massive hindquarters boomlayed out from under his double-vented Madras tail like two squarish sofa pillows. Habitually pleasing the dignitaries, double-taking my wife’s whiteness without a sound, Homer Brown put our matching bags in the back of a Chevy station wagon, bullet-green under its thick coast of dust. And we moved on out. 

Through the colorful guts of Texas bugs splattered on the windshield, we gathered the landscape. More vegetation than I had expected, and the soil reddish.  Enormous bare trees, bones of old giants, stood gray-gaunt and hacked up, planted with power towers in oil fields.  But the important thing was the endlessness of God’s sky.