David Naimon
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first heard May 2026
last heard 24 Aug
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If part of that is an insistence on your part, in specific to this very thing, that you're saying, listen to me.
You mentioned these repetitions in relationship to history.
One way I read them was repetition is sort of an interrogation of the idea of progress.
For instance, in your poem, Now More Than Ever, it opens with the line, this is a phrase used by whites to express their surprise and disapproval of social or political conditions, which for the Negro are devastatingly usual.
The subtext of which seems to be that the black experience is one of repetition.
Well, the
between sort of the white surprise of now more than ever versus the black response, but this has been going on forever.
Like, I think of...
Well, I think I like the Black History Month and then all the blackface scandals in Virginia and the Gucci and the Burberry scandals that also happened in Black History Month where it felt like the larger cultural response was to distance themselves from Virginia or ourselves from Virginia.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
What's going on in Virginia?
What's in the water in Virginia?
And then other people just started looking, very casually looking at yearbook history in any number of schools all over the country.
And there's nothing particularly going on in Virginia.
Essentially, it's going
And for that matter, I was reading about something very un-Morgan Parker-like that you did, which was a hike.
that?
Well, you said you did a hike here in Oregon.
And you did it based on another thing where you could say Oregon and Virginia, not that different.
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