I am trying to track down a story I read years ago. It might be by Ralph Ellison but I am not sure. The narrator works at a hush-hush government facility where Black people are being rounded up and detained. He reads one of their letters home. Eventually he learns that they are being used for food a la “Soylent Green.” One character accuses him of being a “n—-r eating SOB.” The story ends with the narrator repeating “My wife is having a baby. I have eaten human flesh….” Thank you.
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The story is “The NRACP” by George P. Elliott.
This is a George P Elliott short story called ‘The NRACP’. It can be found in the book ‘A George P Elliott Reader’, published 1992
Thank you for the information. I don’t know why I misremembered it as being by Ralph Ellison! I read it maybe 40 years ago, and it seems even more eerily relevant now….
Thank you for the information. I don’t know why I misremembered it as being by Ralph Ellison! I read it maybe 40 years ago, and it seems even more eerily relevant now..
Linguistics person here – words that are similar to each other are closely connected in the brain, so Elliott and Ellison are neurological next-door neighbors. A very logical reason for a close guess!