The Paternity Test
“End the death tax. Enemy combatants. A horror show, but soothing—in fact, the only soothing thing on days, like today, when I was steamed: a headbutt to a wall to cure a headache.
The thing that had me steamed was a spat with Steve, my editor, and his was the phone call I’d been dreading. I’d written a new lesson, on Marranos in Brazil, the ways they’d survived the Inquisition: their secret rites and prohibitions—no kneeling in church, no pork—the doggedness of Debora’s brave forebears.
Steve’s... response? Anti-Christian. Will never get through Texas.
I hated his way, in e-mails, of leaving out the subjects of his sentences, as if he were too busy. Baloney, I shot back. How was it anti-anything to describe one group’s strength in the face of unflagging persecution? Would it be “anti-white” to mention, say, the Underground Railroad? Should those facts be stricken from the books?
Not arguing facts, he typed. Just warning you: won’t fly. School board’s very touchy about religion.MoreLess
The thing that had me steamed was a spat with Steve, my editor, and his was the phone call I’d been dreading. I’d written a new lesson, on Marranos in Brazil, the ways they’d survived the Inquisition: their secret rites and prohibitions—no kneeling in church, no pork—the doggedness of Debora’s brave forebears.
Steve’s... response? Anti-Christian. Will never get through Texas.
I hated his way, in e-mails, of leaving out the subjects of his sentences, as if he were too busy. Baloney, I shot back. How was it anti-anything to describe one group’s strength in the face of unflagging persecution? Would it be “anti-white” to mention, say, the Underground Railroad? Should those facts be stricken from the books?
Not arguing facts, he typed. Just warning you: won’t fly. School board’s very touchy about religion.MoreLess
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