Saturday, August 16, 2014

8-16-14 teacherken at Daily Kos - Trust me - there is a must read piece in the New Yorker

teacherken at Daily Kos:






It is by Tobias Wolff, and is titled Heart of Whiteness Wolff, who turned 69 in July, was born in Birmingham AL.  His older brother Geoffrey was a friend of James Baldwin. Like me, the two Wolffs were in Washington DC on August 28, 1963 for the March for Jobs and Freedom. It is a superbly written - and searingly honest - piece, for example: I lived in the South from the age of four through fourth