[lbo-talk] Supervillainy. Or, why I fell in love with science

[JBrown72073 at cs.com]

Dwayne Monroe wrote, and how:
>I had enemies. Mostly, it appeared, white adults, who wanted to fill my
>head with nonsense.  Idiots chattering about comparative IQ tests, 
>so-called teachers trying to tract me into less challenging material, 
>fuck ups claiming to be in the same league as Pericles or Shakespeare or
>Einstein because their skin happened to be lighter than mine and they 
>had a few more dollars in their pocket.
>
>I wanted to go the total Stalin on their asses, wipe these jackasses 
>from the face of the earth, gather them together and toss them into 
>Trinity's brief, but devastating, solar furnace, see their cities 
>reduced to ashes, crush their heat brittlized skulls between my hands.
>
>Of course, none of that was an option, I was born in the wrong age to 
>properly serve Mars.  The next best thing was, simply, to know more and,
>with that knowledge, do more.
>
>This was/is also a form of warfare.
>
>.d.

Damn.  At that age I didn't know my enemies were external.  How, when did you 
know it wasn't you, it was them?

Jenny Brown   </HTML>