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8. Like I said . . .
Tue Dec 13, 2016, 01:14 AM
Dec 2016

It continues to amaze me that people who should know better . . .

He should restrain his attempts at witticism if he doesn't know better than to write "black Muslim" instead of "Muslim".

Why is Ellison's race even mentioned, and why doesn't Keillor know better than to phrase Ellison as a black Muslim (a clumsy writing error that seems to refer to the maligned sect here in America that is an offshoot of Islam?). Or maybe that was intentional.

That phrase apparently was not run past an editor — too cute and insensitive in an attempt to be witty?

And why is Ellison referred to as lackluster? That, IMO, is another unforced error by Keillor?

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