What's the talk tomorrow? I remember that a couple of months ago you sent me an enormous e-mail containing schedules of all sorts of stuff. But it got buried somewhere when I had to make this place look spiffy to put it on the market. I have now sold it and gone to contract -- perhaps just in the nick of time given the economic slowdown. I found that piece on black rascism very interesting. Much truth in it, particularly the reluctance of lefty types -- and blacks -- to acknowledge that rascism (although everyone knows about black rascism toward Jews). I'm just suspicious of the AE source. There is no attempt by the writer to explain the reasons for the anti-Korean feelings among blacks. I remember a long piece somewhere, when that boycott in Brooklyn was going on, about the Confucion tradition in Korean society which places family at the center of its social organization. Anyone who is not of your family doesn't at all in your sense of civic responsibility or concern. Certainly I've heard compl aints on my own pretty liberal west side about the Korean green grocers and how hard nosed they are toward us customers; they make it clear that they dont' give a damn about us or our neighborhood where just about everyone treats them with civility and stealing is surely a rarity. After the Brooklyn business, as I'm sure you recall, there was an effort by the Korean business associations to make its shopkeepers a little kinder and warmer and more understanding to their customers in general, and in black areas specifically. My point being that the AE guy didn't address blacks' complaints. Anyway, what's the talk tomorrow? I'm up for something that will take me out of this house where I've been cooped up with several deadlines for over a week. Pat
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