Re-re-Appropriation

The title of my previous post "Native Son" is a play on words and meaning from the book Native Son by Black American (then referred to as American Negro) writer Richard Wright, who was no "son" and refused to be a "native."

Black Americans appear to be in perpetual anger against their white countrymen, towards whom they never feel convivial. Wright wrote his "Native Son," just before the tumultuous "sixties" to which he contributed nonetheless as a Communist, when white Americans were cornered into accepting the superiority of blacks, and not simply their equality.

Here is a quote from what he wrote:

The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us.

This must be where former President Barrack Obama must have got his Whites, guns and religion reference from.

And here is the homosexual spokesman for Wright, James Baldwin, who fled America to France, not as some original form of protest, but to join other American expatriate writers and artists who preferred to criticize their country from a distance:

Out of this incredible brutality, we get the myth of the happy darky and Gone With the Wind. And the North Americans appear to believe these legends, which they have created and which absolutely nothing in reality corroborates, until today. And when these legends are attacked, as is happening now—all over a globe which has never been and never will be White—my countrymen become childishly vindictive and unutterably dangerous. The”
- James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

So I can re-re-appropriate "Native" whenever and wherever like. Here it is again:
Homer Watson: Native Son.

I've read Native Son. It s a lyrical book. But it is unforgiving and even petty: