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Tuesday, March 18. 2014

Three books


- Thomas Sowell loves Amy Chua's “The Triple Package”. Who knew that Nigerian immigrants did so well?


- Krauthammer's Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics. I am halfway through it, and it is a delight.  Not much politics in it, but lots of life, with Charles' impeccable prose. He writes pretty well about baseball, which is one measure of a writer in my view.


- Our friend did a brief trailer for his book about Ethiopian kids in Israel, Sheba and Solomon's Return:




Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 17:36 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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I think you hit a triple with these three posts Bird Dog. Some fine material from which some ambitious right leaning politician can mold an optimistic, forward looking platform. Get jiggy with it Rubio, I know you read this stuff.
#1 KommiKillr on 2014-03-18 19:47 (Reply)
My dental hygienist is Ethiopian raised in Israel. We talk about the plight of American blacks. She is married to a white man and encounters nasty racist comments from other blacks.
#2 Mike_K (Link) on 2014-03-18 22:39 (Reply)
Mike - Many, if not most Ethiopians I met back in the '60s (admittedly on only a few RONs in Asmara and Addis) rushed to stress that they were not African Negroes. Being considered negro seemed to be a sore point with them. (Asmara was an Ethiopian province back then.)
#3 BillH on 2014-03-19 09:45 (Reply)

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