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okay. it may be embarrassing but that’s why it’s so funny. noam came home with some obscurely patriotic in-class assignment. they were supposed to write letters to prospective immigrants to the U.S. in order to convince them to become citizens. and noam’s letter had a line in it like “illegal immigrants don’t pay taxes.” so i kinda freaked, got pissed and wrote the teacher an email which probably reads like a nutty letter to the editor.

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To the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles,
The very fact that the states in the U.S. continue to execute anyone, even if they are “guilty,” is deplorable. The justice system’s propensity to convict and sentence indigent people, black men in particular, is a practice that must end now. Every citizen deserves a fair [...]

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this past august noam celebrated his 10th birthday in style at FDR skatepark. the weather was perfect and everyone had a blast. the only hangup was that noam’s name was misspelled on the cake :- (

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I’ll write more later, but here are some photos of Keith + Mendi Obadike’s visit to the IMA program yesterday. I was pretty much geeking out the entire time. They presented for about an hour or so and then checked out the IMAterial show that’s happening in the Black Box. There, they [...]

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if i can instruct noam, encourage him to get back on his skateboard after falling, how can i teach myself the same lesson? how can i remove the stigma surrounding “failure.” should i call “falling” failure at all?
Try. I just finished listening to Anna Deavere Smith’s book on CD Letters to a Young Artist: [...]

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(a back-post for last weekend.)
took noam to the skate park w/ his friend marcus and his mom this past weekend. even though he was a pain in the tuchas this morning – throwing fits left and right, not letting me get work done, etc… He’s always had a problem with playing by himself, not getting [...]

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