Apr 07 2009
In Response to Elvis’s “Today In History” Segment
Elvis Dingeldein, who I’ve blogged about on one other occasion, is something of a comic genius, and he has posted a fun bit of silliness on Bob Cesca’s site here: http://www.bobcesca.com/blog-archives/2009/04/elvis_dingeldei.html.
Well, my reaction was a little on the serious side, so I decided to post here, rather than spoil the fun:
On this day in history, 4/7/1915, my grandmother, Elizabeth, was born in North Carolina. A great woman who counted Shirley Chisolm and Howard Golden as colleagues, she owned her own property in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn as early as 1974, which frequently provided shelter to her two children, my aunt, and my dad. That the family was unable to keep up her material legacy is one of my most profound sadnesses. That I may yet live up to her legacy of character and dignity is my most fervent hope.
(Sorry – I laughed myself silly reading your “Today in History” stuff… but when I read your ironic tag “For Whitey” I wanted to think of something that was good for brown folk. My grandmother was.)
QT
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