Notes for a Monday

CORRECTION:
Last week, made mistake -- typed in the name of a book and movie as
"Gentlemen's Agreement";
it's actually "Gentleman's Agreement."
My mistake; it was "all in my head."

RECOMMENDATION:
Listen, on You Tube, to the music of Jelly Roll Morton.
Begin with "Hesitation Blues."
You get a whole sense of American history, seeping into your pores through Music.

NOTATION:
"The Triumphant Decline of the WASP" -- an article just in N.Y. Times -- read; while on topic of "Gentleman's Agreement" -- this op-ed says progress has been made, & shows stats.

It says,
Unlike almost every other dominant ethnic, racial or religious group in world history, white Protestants have ceded their socioeconomic power by hewing voluntarily to the values of merit and inclusion, values now shared broadly by Americans of different backgrounds. The decline of the Protestant elite is actually its greatest triumph.

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