That’s what I thought was cool. And if you’re white, you’re like us. You don’t try to be black. What I thought was stupid was white people trying to act black. Like Lester. His use of the word “nigger” was his way of trying to act black. He was trying to be the “white nigger.” The “white nigger” idea was Norman Mailer’s fifties lesson in how to be cool. And we were really rejecting that. We were rejecting the fifties and sixties instructions on how to be hip.
