“People don’t know, children,” T. Tommy
intoned, “about the bell in yonder church.
How it was donated as the twentieth century turned by a man who gave the
money on the assurance that no black folks would ever worship there. Walnut Street – the street, not the church –
goes by Muhammad Ali Boulevard now, in honor of the fighter. Would it be ironic, you think, if a mosque
was to someday take over this site, make this Constantinople into Istanbul?”
(from Vine: An
Urban Legend, by Michael Williams)
5½*/10. The full review is here.
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