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Frances Stark’s modest proposal

Being something of a smart aleck, I’ve sometimes joked that while I may look white, actually I’m Irish. All eight of my great-grandparents were born there. Indeed, there was a time during the Great Potato Famine of 1845-’52 when my ancestors endured conditions similar to Black enslaved people in America. Millions of Irish peasants starved […]

Being something of a smart aleck, I’ve sometimes joked that while I may look white, actually I’m Irish. All eight of my great-grandparents were born there. Indeed, there was a

Commentary - Consider the scene in "Gullivers Travels" where the gigantic hero extinguishes a fire in the Lilliputian queens chambers by pissing on it (the authors response to Queen Annes

Commentary - Consider the scene in "Gullivers Travels" where the gigantic hero extinguishes a fire in the Lilliputian queens chambers by pissing on it (the authors response to Queen Annes

Being something of a smart aleck, I’ve sometimes joked that while I may look white, actually I’m Irish.

Being something of a smart aleck, I’ve sometimes joked that while I may look White, actually I’m Irish.

Being something of a smart aleck, I’ve sometimes joked that while I may look white, actually I’m Irish. All eight of my great-grand parents were born there. Indeed, there was a time during the Great Potato Famine of 1845-52 when my ancestors were treated rather worse than Black slaves in America. Mi...

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Banning books and AP classes are what happens when semiliterate ideologues try to defend us white folks from history itself and the perspectives of Black people.