Comments on: Goodbye, Rickey Williams http://kenyonfarrow.com/2006/07/30/goodbye-rickey-williams/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:08:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Kenyon Farrow http://kenyonfarrow.com/2006/07/30/goodbye-rickey-williams/#comment-278 Kenyon Farrow Thu, 03 Aug 2006 15:51:11 +0000 http://kenyonfarrow.wordpress.com/2006/07/30/goodbye-rickey-williams/#comment-278 You know, Kazembe, I though to look up that factoid in Leemings biography, but was lazy and didn't. I literaly thought to myself if this is wrong Kazembe will catch it! LOL!!! I knew that you'd be the person to catch me out there! <br/><br/>Thanks! You know, Kazembe, I though to look up that factoid in Leemings biography, but was lazy and didn’t. I literaly thought to myself if this is wrong Kazembe will catch it! LOL!!! I knew that you’d be the person to catch me out there!

Thanks!

]]> By: kazembe http://kenyonfarrow.com/2006/07/30/goodbye-rickey-williams/#comment-277 kazembe Wed, 02 Aug 2006 20:55:32 +0000 http://kenyonfarrow.wordpress.com/2006/07/30/goodbye-rickey-williams/#comment-277 Just as a historic note, Rufus Scott's suicide in Another Country was inspired by a person that Baldwin was in love with, Eugene Rivers. Rivers committed suicide after professing a love for Baldwin. The incident haunted Baldwin for a number of years.<br/>Baldwin too attempted suicide, after being jailed in Paris for "stealing" (He took a sheet from one hostel to another) Fortunately, the rope broke.<br/><br/>In terms of community, I agree with you Kenyon, people are tough on each other, particularly in POC-communities. I always linked it to 1)Survivial mechanism, i.e.- developing tough skins to protect a soft interior. I think this is the reason why "camping" or "playing the dozens" is so prominent. We have to laugh to keep from crying. Just as a historic note, Rufus Scott’s suicide in Another Country was inspired by a person that Baldwin was in love with, Eugene Rivers. Rivers committed suicide after professing a love for Baldwin. The incident haunted Baldwin for a number of years.
Baldwin too attempted suicide, after being jailed in Paris for “stealing” (He took a sheet from one hostel to another) Fortunately, the rope broke.

In terms of community, I agree with you Kenyon, people are tough on each other, particularly in POC-communities. I always linked it to 1)Survivial mechanism, i.e.- developing tough skins to protect a soft interior. I think this is the reason why “camping” or “playing the dozens” is so prominent. We have to laugh to keep from crying.

]]> By: Bernie http://kenyonfarrow.com/2006/07/30/goodbye-rickey-williams/#comment-276 Bernie Sun, 30 Jul 2006 15:38:46 +0000 http://kenyonfarrow.wordpress.com/2006/07/30/goodbye-rickey-williams/#comment-276 <i>I also know that while one's work is often trying to build a sense of community--and to attempt to inspire the conditions that create alternaitive ways of being in the world, new ways of relating to each other--it is often a lonely endeavor. I have often felt that many of us who do this work are often the most alienated.</i><br/><br/>True dat. I also know that while one’s work is often trying to build a sense of community–and to attempt to inspire the conditions that create alternaitive ways of being in the world, new ways of relating to each other–it is often a lonely endeavor. I have often felt that many of us who do this work are often the most alienated.

True dat.

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