Someone wrote me that James’ Edwards’ book, “Racism, Shmacism” is the Mantra. He then wrote me and said it had the Mantra in it, then that it had Mantra THINKING in it.

My few real BUGSERS are now experts on this. How much does the effect of the Mantra increase or decrease with abruptness?

Someone put a url of a video interview where Dr. Duke was supposed to have quoted the Mantra. I have tried to get to it twice, but after ten minutes or so of standard Duke stuff, which is GOOD stuff, he still had not varied off the cultural stuff and friendly talk that is routine.

I have a disability you are tired of hearing about and you will get more tired, because the only alternative is that you will get offended. A person with extreme attention deficit will not remember your name and loses things all the time. He can’t have a hearing aid because he will wear it into the bath, and that destroys ALL hearing aids.

No sane person mocks a blind man with his stick or tells a man in a wheelchair that if he had any GUTS he would get up and walk: “Hell, I know two-year-old kids who can WALK!”

I have written and given speeches for over fifty years. It is torture for me to be forced to pay attention that long. So, now that my livelihood doesn’t depend on it, I simply cannot sit through a half-hour interview to finally hear one phrase. I admit I have not read Racism, Shmacism because it is a subject I know and have read about it hundreds of times already.

But as I pointed out in an earlier article, I am your blind man in a blackout.

But my disability helps on another level. In the internet age, almost all young people display the same signs of impatience that I do. You  try to get somebody whose school desk has a computer on it to read an entire book for a few interesting parts.

You have to get the punch out there fast or your reader will head for one of the ten million sites that will.

So what are your views on the Mantra? Is it important to present it, if possible, stark naked?

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“Debate Advice and Style.”