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Why the hell not? We are at war, afterall..

When I was a toddler, a plucky Croatian/Irish American progressive named Dennis Kucinich , at the time only 31 years old, ran for and won the mayorship of a steel town that bordered my hometown to the West; the same steel town where I was born in 1975 at Rainbow Babies and Children. The Dennis Kucinich Mayoral tenure is considered Cleveland, Ohio's most turbulent. The Cleveland Free Times recently ran a cover story about a mob assassination attempt against the young mayor, who was fighting an uphill battle against the entrenched corruption and graft that had permeated Northeastern Ohio politics in the 1970s (an era in which my father and mother witnessed first hand a mob car bombing at the steps of Cleveland City Hall, drawing obvious parallels to the 1920s). In 1979, family friend and former colleague of my father George Voinovich, a Cleveland lawyer, ran against Kuchinich and won the mayoral race. He oversaw a brief period of economic growth for a city that has been behind the 8

Through a strange set of circumstances..

I saw this while perusing The Assimilated Negro . James Baldwin ? Who is this person? Why have I never heard of him? Blogspotters.. now you know what books to get me for xmas!..