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More mature than Taylor's Booker-nominated debut, “Real Life,” more polished than “Filthy Animals,” his third is a novel about the anxieties and pieties of grad students as they grapple with the art life and, more literally, each other.
The black middle class doubled since 1970, black upper middle class tripled. why? because of something called affirmative action. we have the biggest black middle class in history, we have a black president, we have more black elected officials, over 40 black people in the black caucus. what is the black caucus? we have so many congress people, they have an organization. you say, wow, what happened? was there a revolution? you say, well, in a sense there was. he would say, that means poverty was obliterated, right? he died and poor people -- well, it didn't happen that way. how did it happen? ...