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Entry: A Thanksgiving Turkey From a Chickenhawk Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/a_thanksgiving_turkey_from_a_chickenhawk#10269 Post contents: Kari, If your anecdote about HL Mencken really is true, it's amazing how he changed. According to Marion Elizabeth Rodgers's biography, Mencken was one of the first publishers to publish African-American writing in a mainstream publication (The American Mercury), he tried to establish a publication dedicated solely to African-American literature at a time when it simply was not done, and he was so vehement in his criticism of lynching that the parts of Maryland where it happened tried to organize a boycott of his newspaper; the state legislature hadn't forgiven him years later. Mencken wasn't PC by the standards of our day, but by the standards of HIS day during the course of his life - his work with Nietzsche was at the very beginning of his life - he revealed himself in word and deed to be extremely progressive as far as race relations were concerned. Sent at: 2008 07 24