The people who are called black here, and who call themselves black, are a small and easily defeatable minority, somewhere around ten or twelve percent of us. They have nonetheless made what is perhaps this hemisphere’s most consoling and harmlessly exciting contribution to world civilization: jazz. Second to that in making life a little better than it would be without it is, in my opinion, the therapeutic scheme for treating dangerous addictions, the invention by two white men in Akron, Ohio, of what are known as the Principles of Alcoholics Anonymous. Two other men from Ohio invented the
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