On 1/18/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net>
wrote:
If America
is indeed the great melting pot, what indeed is the point of classifying
African-American literature as something separate from plain old
American literature.
Well, nobody has really called America the great melting pot earnestly
for some time now (see [[melting pot]]).
What does it say now that Bush used the term in his State of the Union
speech? ;-)
Ec