Fortunately, Keith Boykin is also very busy. So, I am confident that the empathy and patience he extends to me are always sincere. Furthermore, Keith is a beloved and renowned author whose serial bestsellers never really need my publicity.

Keith is a dear friend and a role model. He is the epitome of my definition of an ideal black man. He is brilliant, articulate, brave, and kind. He is also beautiful, chocolate, and muscular. Keith is the lawyer I once dreamed of being. He is the globetrotting lecturer I plan to someday have time to become. He is the diplomatic politician I could never be...

I could compliment Keith incessantly, as he truly is a special person. Of all his many talents and gifts, it is his magic as an author that shines brightest. His masterful new book, Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies, and Denial in Black America, is his latest masterpiece.

I love all of Keith's books. One More River to Cross: Black & Gay in America and Respecting the Soul are dual classics. His new book is his best. Fans of author E. Lynn Harris will enjoy E. Lynn's foreword to Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies, and Denial in Black America.

I penned this belated review as a timeless praise. I have apologized to Keith for its delay. I hope that this review will inspire someone who has procrastinated to read Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies, and Denial in Black America. Millions have already enjoyed this national bestseller, just as I have.

Racist media powers have dared to pretend that black men are exclusively practicing clandestine homosexual sex. They also feign suggestions that infidelity with men is more evil and fatal than infidelity with women. These are deliberately fabricated myths fashioned by malicious racists and gaybashers. Their vile origins are curiously complex.

Racism demonizes black sexuality in general. Black homosexuals are demonized by racists and fellow blacks in particular. As Ellis Cose states, black men are the sexual envy of the world. The Down Low propaganda nullifies historical black sexual supremacy.

Malicious media myths beg deeply loaded questions: Who wants sex from a macho black man who is secretly gay and fatally infected? Why combat AIDS when you can merely crucify its predatory black male carriers? Why not just date a white man who is a real macho heterosexual?... Keith definitively dispels these myths and eloquently answers these questions.

Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies, and Denial in Black America reads like a superb closing argument. It flows as if Keith were the counsel for the defense of Reason, in a trial where Reason is being framed by Racism, Homo-hatred, and AIDS, for crimes against humanity. Indeed the real crime in the Down Low debate is how it is merely a Damned Ludicrous distraction from real issues related to surviving biological warfare.

Keith' s new book is a magical blend of powerful prose and passionate protests. He skillfully exposes every facet of each issue hidden beneath the mask of a catchy urban sound byte. He examines the political. He analyzes the emotional. He indicts the hypocritical. He strips bare the sexual. Lastly, he brings logic and depth to necessary conversations that are typically lost in shallow lunacy.

Keith acknowledges the anger and fear evoked by lying, cowardly, closeted, and amoral homosexuals who masquerade as macho and monogamous heterosexuals. These abusive homosexuals usually emotionally destroy the lovers/wives/sons/daughters/kin they deceive. They are co-conspirators of gaybashers who seek to destroy all homosexuals by making our collective destruction justified by righteous rage.

Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies, and Denial in Black America contains many intimate narratives of actual public incidents and private reflections. Keith exposes the fraudulent and infamous J. L. King as the proudly self-appointed poster boy for such rabid "Down Low Brothas" . It is a riveting read to see King personify deceit, denial, capitalism without conscience, and sensationalism without a soul.

Keith and I are both fanatical music lovers. One of the things I adore most about this book is how expertly and extensively he researched many genres of music to document the vintage themes of homosexuality and down low sex in lyrics. He poetically proved that infidelity is a universally revered relic.

As a musicologist, it was sheer joy to see so many of the rare tunes that I proudly house in my personal music library and constantly feature within the playlists of my legendary FM radio show "Les Chanteuses Africaines" in this book. Keith has documented precisely how deeply extracurricular infidelity has always been entrenched within American music and culture. These universal sexual exploits have penetrated virtually all boundaries of race, sexuality, and gender.

Reading this book felt like attending an exciting spiritual revival. My soul literally shouted as I read it. The following paragraph made me want to run up to a rebel altar:

" ...Maybe some of the wives don't want to deal with the reality of their husbands' sexuality. Maybe men on the down low don't think they're 'forging an exuberant new sexual identity'. Maybe some gay men should not be so upset about the down low when they're busy seeking 'masculine' or 'straight-acting' men. And, maybe men on the down low are not primarily responsible for spreading AIDS in the black community."

My respect and reverence for this book is truly indescribable. I am inexplicably honored to be quoted within its pages. You may read my column "The Low Down on The Down Low" in its entirety at my site. I am eternally grateful to Keith for gracing Eloquent Fury by inclusion in this masterpiece. Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies, and Denial in Black America will always be one of my most prized and utilized possessions.

Keith's awesome book is 311 pages of fifteen chapters. Clever chapter titles include: "Never Underestimate The Power of a Woman" , "It's Not Just a Black Thing" , "When a Disease Becomes an Excuse" , "Since the Beginning of Time" , "Everybody's Doing It" , "Seven Deadly Lies & Other Myths" , and "Homo Thugs, Helmets & Hip Hop" . Each chapter is filled with eloquent sanity and thorough reason on a nauseated topic that has been starving for healing via substantive debate and detailed analysis.

Read this book today! Keith has penned an unparalleled argument against aimless anger, displaced blame, delusion, racism, homo-hatred, sexism, denial, blatant lies, revisionist history, and suicidal distractions. The defense rests! Keith's logical victory has set a cerebral precedent for landmark literature.

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