The Village Voice: Features: Crouching Stanley, Hidden Gangsta by Ta-Nehisi Coates: "Why the hanging judge can't keep his hands to himself
Crouching Stanley, Hidden Gangsta
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
July 24th, 2004 12:00 PM
I reserve the right to be a nigger.
Aaron McGruder
Stanley Crouch is a gangsta rapper. Throughout his career, Crouch has moved throught black nationalism, bohemia, and places we haven't yet developed the vocab to name. But if there's one thing we've gleaned from Crouch's recent assault on novelist and critic Dale Peck, it is this?e have found Crouch's muse, and his name is Suge Knight.
The backstory is simple, and for Crouch routine. On July 12, out for lunch at Tartine in the West Village, Crouch spotted Peck, who'd trashed his book Don't the Moon Look Lonesome a few years back. After greeting Peck with one hand, Crouch smacked him with the other. 'What I would actually have preferred to happen,' says Crouch, 'was that I had the presence of mind to hawk up a huge oyster and spit it in his face.' "
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