start somewhere

Everybody’s doing it.
Well, what shall I talk about first?
How about the last book I read? Yeah.

I learned roughly three things from It’s the Little Things: Everyday Interactions That Anger, Annoy, and Divide the Races by Lena Williams (Harcourt, 2000):

  • Long un-kinky blond hair is a status symbol forever out of Blacks’ reach, and some resent seeing a White gratuitously flip such hair about.
  • Because of the ‘boy’ thing, Blacks don’t take first-naming as a friendly gesture.
  • You can write for the New York Times for 25 years without learning to use the parenthetical comma properly.
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