Jonathan Yardley has a column about authors that use the racist past of their ancestors to show their own innate goodness. It's a rather nice piece of snark, as shown here: Though all due modesty and claims of imperfection are expressed, the reader is expected to stand and cheer as, at book's end, the author's heroic achievement is revealed in full.
Sunday, March 26, 2006
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