Mumbo Jumbo: A Novel

by Ishmael Reed

This is the country where something is successful in direct proportion to how it’s put over; how it’s gamed. Look at the Mormons. Did they recruit 1000s of whites to their cause by conjuring the Druids? No, they used material the people were familiar with and added their own.

a Black Pragmatist could be anything he chose to be. Why that was freedom, wasn’t it?

Well if you must know, it all began 1000s of years ago in Egypt,