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If found the following paragraphs in "Why Hugo?" (ML2578, 10/89) where Berg appears to be talking about contemporary African-American hip-hop culture as a reason for the destruction caused by Hurricane Hugo:
"4. I wonder what History is going to call these savage kids of today, if there is any History. They certainly weren't hippies. They weren't the hippy generation, most of whom smoked pot & were fairly peaceful & peace-loving, etc. A lot of them were war protestors in those days. But these guys in my dream were just drug addicts, actually living on hard dope & their boom music.--Horrible!
5. You can understand how the Hammites, the Egyptians, were at first very wise & very civilised. But they worshipped all those devil gods. The original Egyptians apparently melted into the jungle. The so-called Egyptians today are nearly all Arabs who came later with the conquest of the Muslims. When you think how those ancient Egyptians were so smart & civilised, they weren't savages at that time. But when they fled into the jungles they soon became savages.
6. How did they get that way?--All that jungle music, war dances & sex dances! They just became completely depraved & totally degraded, & became absolute total savages! So I was thinking, wondering if their music had something to do with it.--That must be the medium through which the Devil got in & turned them into absolute savages! The jungle music today has now gotten down to almost nothing but a beat, no melody or anything at all, just a beat, a heavy beat to which they dance."
Paragraph 7 has been deleted. I'm wondering if anyone has access to the missing paragraph from a non-sanitized document?