Tuesday, November 24, 2020

The "first Thanksgiving"--ancient wrongs


I can never get over that I have only met abt 3-4 Native Americans in my entire nearly 40 years in USA.  One was an artist, one was a delegate in Boulder and one was author Sherman Alexie at a book reading.

In my 13 years at Penn, I only met 2 African-Americans.

That says it all.

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Oh--my big mistake--The White Countess was written by Nobel Laureate

Kazao Ishiguru, whom I met once at a book signing in Philadelphia, way back in the 1990s. And it's not Liam Neeson--it's Ralph Fien...