tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203082776419426855.post7423449410561480666..comments2024-03-26T02:19:27.813-07:00Comments on ♆ The Macho Response ♆: Hey, Somebody Wrote A Book About My Home!!! (Including Foster Care And Just Everything!!!)The Crack Emceehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08366101526773588864noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203082776419426855.post-48748575071314842222008-03-03T23:51:00.000-08:002008-03-03T23:51:00.000-08:00A couple of things stick out for me, from the IHT ...A couple of things stick out for me, <A HREF="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/04/arts/04fake.php" REL="nofollow">from the IHT article</A>, starting with this quote:<BR/><BR/><I>"I thought it was my opportunity to put a voice to people who people don't listen to. I was in a position where at one point people said you should speak for us because nobody else is going to let us in to talk."</I><BR/><BR/>That I understand. (Many people have told me, once they hear of my experiences, that I should write a book as well.) It's weird how mainstream folks can block out the voices of people like me, when, usually, I have better stories to tell - and greater insights - than most of what passes for "smart people" out here. <BR/><BR/>I guess that's why I stuck with <I>The Macho Response</I> for the title of this blog: I'm a (real) native of South Central, Los Angeles, and I ain't gonna let nobody change - or silence - what I have to say now that I'm out. Hell, I don't think 80% of the people I've met, since I left, could hack it there, no matter how big they think they are out here, in "the real world". Obama would get killed for not knowing how to look at people right.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, here's the other part that got me:<BR/><BR/><I>"Seltzer said she had met some gang members during a short stint she said she spent at 'Grant' high school 'in the Valley.' (A Google search identifies Ulysses S. Grant High School, a school on 34 acres in the Valley Glen neighborhood in the east-central San Fernando Valley.) 'It opened my mind to the fact that not everybody is as they are portrayed on the news,' she said."</I><BR/><BR/>Believe it or not, that's even the High School I was bussed to, from South Central. How wild is that? Baby did her homework. <BR/><BR/>It's a damn shame though. I guess "Love and Consequences" was a more than apt choice, for the title, after all. She shoulda known.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for hooking me up.The Crack Emceehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08366101526773588864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203082776419426855.post-66093721464632315762008-03-03T22:21:00.000-08:002008-03-03T22:21:00.000-08:00Author admits acclaimed memoir is fantasyIn "Love ...Author admits acclaimed memoir is fantasy<BR/><BR/>In "Love and Consequences," a critically acclaimed memoir published last week, Margaret B. Jones wrote about her life as a half-white, half-Native American girl growing up in South-Central Los Angeles as a foster child among gang-bangers, running drugs for the Bloods.<BR/><BR/>The problem is that none of it is true.<BR/><BR/>Margaret B. Jones is a pseudonym for Margaret Seltzer, who is all white and grew up in the well-to-do Sherman Oaks section of Los Angeles, in the San Fernando Valley, with her biological family. She graduated from the Campbell Hall School, a private Episcopal day school in the North Hollywood neighborhood. She has never lived with a foster family, nor did she run drugs for any gang members. Nor did she graduate from the University of Oregon, as she had claimed.<BR/><BR/>Riverhead Books, the unit of Penguin Group USA that published "Love and Consequences," is recalling all copies of the book and has canceled Seltzer's book tour, which was scheduled to start on Monday in Eugene, Oregon, where she currently lives...<BR/><BR/>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/04/arts/04fake.phpAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com