No Straw Men

Published in the Spectator (Hamilton College), January 30, 2004, and in the Observer-Dispatch (Utica, NY), January 17, 2005 (noted on the Hamilton College Web site).
Asked to describe a person with black skin, most people would reflexively call him an African-American. But not all black Americans come from the African continent—many are Haitians and Jamaicans—and relatively […]

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