I'd like to think Bess taste-tested each recipe.

ENVY.

I grew up with yellow spines, too (from the library, because we was poor and shit.) White spines are from the late thirties, and have beautiful cover art, which is why I collected them a little compulsively.

Exactly. Or have Titian hair. Or stop at roadside cafés for fried chicken luncheons. Or have a gift for spotting crinkled ears (gangster giveaway.)

Ehhh, I believe you, and still it's not enough.

And Hannah Gruen! I just want her to make roast beef for me and lay out my summer cotton dresses with matching cotton gloves, and worry about my latest sleuthing case being unsafe. Which is weird, because I’m an old dude.

I have a friend who is an astonishingly beautiful, smart, warm, kind, Pakistani-American woman and she couldn’t stand living here because no one would date her. She said a (white) coworker told her that guys here had hang ups about “dating black women.”

She’s a black hole of Whiteness.

Excellent point. They should run screaming to another network.

They’d turned it into a standard police procedural, though. She was an adult detective, working for the NYPD. Nothing of interest remained.

A friend came to visit me in Minneapolis and after two days asked, “Okay, where do you even keep the black people?”

I’ma bring a ginger ale for this comment while I’m up, I love it so damn much.

I remembered it being cartoony, but it’s likely all the memes at the time that left me thinking so. It’s kinda brutal, in reality. One of the two women he landed on sued.

He would be good at the sex, I bet.

Isn't he the (admittedly dreamy) performer who accidentally kicked an audience member in the head, while performing on an awards show? As I recall, it was very whack-a-mole.

Your point stands though, it doesn’t mean it won’t be disruptive at best, and there’s no reason it shouldn’t have happened decades ago. Talk about pulling the bandaid off slowly.

And Eastside was underfunded, and not receiving maintenance. So imagine the education those Eastside kids would have with the resources and infrastructure they deserve.

Not invalidating your experiences whatsoever, but left out of the article is the fact that the so-called “white” school was racially mixed: about evenly divided between black and white students.

The predominantly black school was underfunded in terms of maintenance and upkeep. Crumbly infrastructure, and all that. So while it may have been scholastically superior under those circumstances, presumably its students might perform even better with the same resources as the school which was racially mixed.

I wish they’d scan and produce/sell reproductions of some of the pieces: either cast, or 3-D printed.