The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Reposting in May 2024)

2024-05-11: Republishing this post from 2017 The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen Copyright © 2017 by Alice Walker Was the Civil Rights Movement a politically orchestrated distraction from the wars on the citizens, lands and cultures of yellow people half a world away? We were distracted, some more than others, by assassinations and hangings, fire bombing of cars and houses, and the humiliating back and forth “progress” of “integration” via the long torturous march of Civil Rights cases through...