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via Lit Hub: Throughout his writing career, Raymond Chandler was never far from his beloved cat, Taki, a black Persian whom he referred to as his secretary. Taki was originally spelled Take. However, Chandler grew tired of telling people she was named after the Japanese word for bamboo and thus pronounced with two syllables. He got Taki around the time …
The fact that statues are falling all across the US and the UK is invigorating and inspiring to me. I wrote about a Confederate monument being toppled in my comedy “Bamboozled.” In that play, it’s a figure of Nathan Bedford Forrest, failed Confederate soldier, murderer, and KKK Grand Dragon. The state of Tennessee wrote and enforced laws that de facto …
I was struck by this gorgeous and powerful photo of two black ballerinas en pointe, protesting on a defaced Confederate monument. It seems to me a juxtaposition of an old and corrupted order and a new order, full of hope and opportunity. A contrast of white racist ugliness and black excellence and beauty. We are all standing on tiptoe. “Ballerinas …
Two years ago, University of Southern California sociologist Karen Sternheimer wrote the essay “Civil Unrest, Riots and Rebellions: What’s the Difference?” In spite of her ironic first name, Sterheimer makes the point that “Civil unrest often occurs when a group strives to gain attention for something they feel is unjust. People felt angry enough to disrupt the social order,” Steinheimer …