i just don't think it's that easy, wes. you may be describing a rhetorical parallel, but rhetoric always functions in specific spaces. and in this case of the contemporary united states, the spaces--institutions in particular, media that those institutions support etc.---are not symmetrical. it's empirically not the case.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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