I didn’t watch Miss America, but now I wish I had. Monday morning I woke up to a fascinating news feed about backlash on the winner, Miss NY, an Indian-American, and a first. But just as her mascara-punctuated tears began to flow as the tiara graced her perfect coif, the haters on Twitter reared their…
I’m struck by the recent op-ed by rapper-poet-pop star K’naan in the NY Times, “Censoring Myself for Success,” found here. It made me sad – but wasn’t surprising – to read how music industry executives wanted him to water down his message and fascinating life story growing up in war-torn Mogadishu, Somalia, so that his…
I’m interested how certain phrases creep into the vernacular. There’s one I hear in the press, which always made me uncomfortable. I wouldn’t repeat it and don’t want my kids to use it. It’s”illegal immigrant.” Actually makes me feel yucky to even type it here. It’s a condition of immigration based on current interpretation of…
