"I want to offer my experience as a lesson, for the precipice from which I plunged is one on which many young, ambitious, well-educated and accomplished African Americans and other ?minorities? teeter, though most, of course, do manage to pull back from the brink. That precipice overhangs America?s racial divide; and the winds sucking us down into the chasm (cultural isolation, professional mistrust, and the external and internal imperatives to succeed, at all costs, to name a few) can be too strong for the troubled and unprepared?as I was?to withstand.? Couple of comments to Blair:
- What overwrought, self-indulgent crap. YOU DIDN'T EVEN GRADUATE FROM COLLEGE, DUMMY!
- He can't make up his mind whether he was:
- a brilliant, hardened hoaxer
- a passive, drug addled "victim," pushed around by forces beyond his control
From where I sit, the more Blair keep shooting off his mouth, the worse it becomes for BOTH him and the NYT. A pox on both their houses.
What overwrought, self-indulgent crap (from Blair). He can't make up his mind whether he was: a brilliant, hardened hoaxer (or) a passive, drug addled "victim," pushed around by forces beyond his control. Hey, the most important thing is....Blair is a "victim."
Victimhood is preferrable over responsible citizenship, b/c being a victim confers social status, government protection, job connections, network TV appearances, and six-figure book and movie deals.
He could be a psycopath but narcissism is definitely a fit.