![]() ![]() But before Loving Day, there was Incognegro. The story of lifelong journeys between worlds. My familiarity w/ Mat Johnson goes back to his novel Loving Day which was an interesting and positive minded satire revolving around the life of people who were from mixed cultures. It is a mystery-noir that delves into race relations, gender issues, family, love and friendship. ![]() Incognegro is more than just a period piece. During his tenure he worked to desegregate the armed forces after World War II, established the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund and infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan to expose those involved with lynchings and other human rights violations. Incognegro is in part based on the life of Walter Francis White, the Executive Secretary of the NAACP from 1931 until his death in 1955. The rest is just people acting playing roles.” But race is just a bunch of rules meant to keep us on the bottom. That's one thing that most of us know that white folks don't. Add to that a little of Madame C.J.s magic and watch me go invisible. “Since White America refuses to see its past, they can't really see me either. ![]() He uses his physical appearance to go “undercover” in the South so that he can report on lynchings and their perpertrators. Zane Pinchback is an African-American journalist who passes for White. Strange fruit hanging from the Poplar trees.įor the rain to gather for the wind to suck,įor the sun to rot, for the tree to drop.Ībel Meeropol writing as Lewis Allan, 1937 ![]() Blood on the leaves and blood at the root.īlack body swinging in the southern breeze. ![]()
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