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• Tuesday, November 18, 2008 05:15 AM

  A Considered Defense of Ms Kaplan's Essay

  Dear Everyone,

  Having just read through these letters (and having also read the essay for a third time), it occurs to me (with undeniable force and clarity) that many of those who have criticized this article and/or Ms Kaplan have failed to understand that an understanding of virtually any aspect of Modern Western Culture must be, not merely incomplete, but irrevocably DAMAGED in its central substance to the degree that it does not incoporate a critical, historeo(sic)-racial analysis of Michelle Obama's booty; and it assumes that the appropriate place for that critical analysis to begin is from the relatively decentered perspective of Kaplan's act of writing (at precisely the nexus of our modern socio/racio discursive axis/s), whereby she refutes the binary division so often made by salon-readers between what "one" says and what "one" does not, so that, perforce, there is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the Kaplanesque strategies that underlie and permeate the discourse of "First Lady Got Back".

  More clearly? Kaplan has siezed for herself and/or the reader, a propriodescriptive authority, whereby she has challenged the axis along which certain categorizations work, what enactments they are performing, and what relations they are creating, rather than what they essentially MEAN.

  This is Kaplan's strategy,...but I'm just guessing.

  OR.... (and as my woefully ignernt East Tennessee grandmother would have said) "That article was more full of shit than a Christmas goose."

  Relievedly yours,

  David Terry

  www.davidterryart.com

  (click on the "Where did you learn to talk like that?" icon to find out where I learned to talk like the-above)

  —dterrydraw Read dterrydraw's other letters
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