From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2012 #1599 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe:mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website:http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Wednesday, October 24 2012 Volume 2012 : Number 1599 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: The Only Black Man at the Party/Art Nouveau (nit picky critique) ["Da] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:43:05 -0400 From: "David J. Phillips" Subject: Re: The Only Black Man at the Party/Art Nouveau (nit picky critique) This is a minor point, but I think that at one point Grier is just wrong: He quotes Joni as saying: "We're here tonight on behalf of one jive-ass nigger who could have been champion of the world and I'd like to introduce you to another one who is." and interprets this to mean that Mitchell was "calling a black manheavyweight champion and Black Muslim Muhammad Ali, no less!a jive-ass nigger" I think that Mitchell was comparing Hurricane (a jive ass nigger who aspired to be champion of the world) to Ali (who really was champion of the world). But ick pick. And now that I parse the quote again, I may be the one who is just wrong. It has happened before. djp ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2012 #1599 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------