{"id":185713,"date":"2019-03-25T07:49:31","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T07:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=185713"},"modified":"2019-03-30T06:52:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T06:52:20","slug":"walt-whitman-mass-media-and-jewish-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=185713","title":{"rendered":"Walt Whitman, Mass Media and Jewish Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

Linh Dinh \u2013 The Unz Review March 23, 2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Ea Kly 2019. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Eileen Neff was my professor at the Philadelphia College of Art, and we became friends and even did coke together, though just once. In January, Eileen emailed to ask if I would consider writing a piece about Walt Whitman for the American Poetry Review, where she is a board member. Its late editor, Stephen Berg, was a mutual friend, and we had many drinking bouts together, fondly remembered, and by Steve too, I\u2019m sure, whether he\u2019s lounging in a heavenly or hellish sphere.<\/h5>\n
I answered Eileen, \u201cI\u2019ve moved back to Vietnam, spent much of last year here. I\u2019m now working as a foreman in my brother in law\u2019s plastic recycling plant, in a small, dusty village no one in their right mind would visit [\u2026] With my new life and mindset, I\u2019m not sure I can say much about Whitman for APR.\u201d<\/h5>\n
Earlier this month, the Brooklyn Public Library invited me to be on a panel, discussing Walt Whitman, for the 200th anniversary of his birth was coming up. The honorarium would be $500, not great, but acceptable if I was still in Philadelphia, a short train ride away. Plus, I would not have wasted a chance to talk about Whitman in Brooklyn.<\/h5>\n
I responded, \u201cMany thanks for your interest, but I\u2019m now living in Ea Kly<\/a><\/span>, Vietnam, and working in a plastic recycling plant. Literally a world away, the American poetry scene is completely alien to me, and I no longer have any interest in it,\u201d and that\u2019s the truth, for I have stopped reading American poems nearly a decade ago, at exactly the same time I decided to write essays on society and politics.<\/h5>\n
I did add, \u201cWhen people remember the US five hundred years from now, they\u2019ll cite Whitman as our pyramids. He\u2019s by far our greatest poet. He remains my inspiration, though I only write poems in Vietnamese now,\u201d and I am working on a cycle of poems about Ea Kly, my new home. I\u2019ve always believed in being a homeboy. If all goes well, I should have a new book by year\u2019s end, published in Saigon.<\/h5>\n
Reaching out to me, the American Poetry Review and Brooklyn Library clearly haven\u2019t gotten the news that I\u2019m a racist, anti-Semitic, Neo-Nazi Fascist, as concluded by many woke American poets, some of them my erstwhile friends. Chax Press, for example, decided to cancel the publication of my Collected Poems, just as it was about to go to the printer, though all of these poems had already been published, mostly by Chax Press itself. It\u2019s understandable. As a long-time professor, Charles Alexander can\u2019t risk losing his income by being associated with a pariah. The woke mob would hound Charles from his ivory tower, just as they would shout me down at the Brooklyn Library, assuming the invitation hadn\u2019t been rescinded.<\/h5>\n
My biggest thought crime was penning \u201cBlacks, Jews and You,\u201d in which I discussed racial differences, black crime, Jewish power and, most heretically, mocked the official Holocaust narrative. I stand by every word. Before this, however, I had repeatedly called for the erasure of Israel, a racist, Fascist state found and maintained by endless terror and war. Clearly, I was becoming tr\u00e8s trief in the eyes of the American academy and media, and that\u2019s why my Postcards from the End of America got exactly one major review, a smear job in the Washington Post.<\/h5>\n
Kudos to Chris Hedges for blurbing my book, then interviewing<\/span><\/a> me on Russia Today. The Pulitzer-winner had nothing to gain, but then Hedges had already been fired from the New York Times, and even prevented from speaking at UPenn, by Jews. Surely, Hedges knows about Jewish power.<\/h5>\n