One of my best friends called me to claim my Empire Falls post was borderline racist.
I dont see it.
Ten years ago I went to see a Public Enemy concert and they hung a white man in effigy. I wasn’t offended. It is called political satire.
No more will I allow myself to be censored because people are offended by the themes. Why shouldn’t believers of Islam pray before they’re killed? Why shouldn’t white people be racist. Because I discuss it, does that make me either a Jew hater or a black person hater.
I am Lebanese: the questions, to me, are relentlessly meaningless. I am pigment blind because my country is pigment aamnesiac. If I am pro-Israel do I hate to be anti-Islam? I want it all.
My friend, a good one, sees life in a skin pigmentation rainbow. He was overjoyed at President Obama winning the Presidency. I was completely indifferent, at least as far as color was concerned. People have the right to be morons. Who is the morons you can decide.