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Sherman Alexie's avatar

"Censors to the left of me...banners to the right...Here I am stuck in the middle with you..."

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Theodore Olson's avatar

Mr. Alexie, I’m so glad to see you out and about! I taught Part-Time Indian to special education & regular ed kids in St. Paul forever! And of course, loved “Smoke Signals.”

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Sherman Alexie's avatar

Thank you for the kind words. And thank you teaching my work!

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Theodore Olson's avatar

Amna and Jeffrey, thank you for revisiting this. Macalester, my school of two years, tap-danced and think they won, because they weren’t Hamline University, but they lost. Everything Rivera did contributed to “supreme risk aversion” as you noted, and harm reduction. I have demanded since I saw those niqab curtains, then frosted windows, that a counterpoint exhibit was needed around the art building, preferably a chain link fence of Victoria’s Secret models popping out of their lingerie. Screw Macalester. Theo

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