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Bourdain as role model: he reveled in diversity, opened his mind, explored, taught.

Posted at June 8, 2018

Tags Bourdain, explore, open mind, prejudism, urgency

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Posted by Hank

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I’m really saddened. And determined. This recent Spring, as Anthony Bourdain entered West Virginia’s McDowell County “coal country,” he imagined it to be “the heart, presumably, of God, guns, and Trump’s America.” He then learned, as he wrote in the field notes for his Parts Unknown segment on the area, “The stereotypes about West Virginia, […]

Thoughts from across the aisle...

“A family from Mexico who arrived here this morning, legally, has as much right to the American dream as the direct descendants of the founding fathers. … when the blood of the sons of immigrants and the grandsons of slaves fell on foreign fields, it was American blood. In it you could not read the ethnic particulars of the soldier who died next to you. He was an American. And when I think of how we learned this lesson, I wonder [how] we could have unlearned it.”

— Bob Dole, 11-year Senate Majority Leader (R-KS), WW2 purple heart veteran