tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899447029099688486.post5527394268973789139..comments2024-03-26T05:20:10.232-04:00Comments on Between the By-Road and the Main Road: "The One With the Foul Ball, Waving for TV"Mary Ann Reillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14349201167828984708noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899447029099688486.post-2090813953849528742015-05-01T19:36:47.474-04:002015-05-01T19:36:47.474-04:00Some years ago I was with an historian from Newark...Some years ago I was with an historian from Newark, NJ who recommended a book, How the Irish Became White. A tough read and one that speaks to how colonized people when freed seek to harm others. Knowing violence leads to doing violence. <br /><br />Given the relentless anger towards President Obama and what has happened repeatedly to African Americans in this country, and the new Jim Crow (Mary Ann Reillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14349201167828984708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899447029099688486.post-88091268344036622572015-05-01T11:25:33.507-04:002015-05-01T11:25:33.507-04:00Wow, counting and counting! The addiction of count...Wow, counting and counting! The addiction of counting and fear of not counting.<br /><br />"Counting is what colonizers do best." My mind immediately went to William the Conqueror, my ancestor, and his Domesday Book. To my father, William Tracy, spending his life as an accountant, always counting and accounting. He kept a little book of accounts for his children -- what they owed him. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com