Black And White

Black And White

1980 • 279 pages

The absurd antiblackness, imperialist fantasies of Naipaul are stomach churning, and his obsession with writing of peoples and ideologies as if they are pests to be crushed make it impossible to slog through the rest of this overwrought travel writing for anything that might be gleaned about Jonestown and the People's Temple. I cannot be expected to take any thoughts or conclusions Naipaul might make about Jonestown in good faith considering how he writes of Black folks and Black thoughts, so I do not see the point in wasting my time.