Christine Flowers
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In reality, great pretender betrayed her Jewish roots, people (opens the original)
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Hannah Gann, a teacher, at least for now, in the Philadelphia Public School system was recently outed for having lied about her race and ethnicity. Gann is a Jew with roots in Baltimore, but pretended to be, alternately, Black, Tunisian and Palestinian, cosmetically altering her appearance and adopting a certain way of speaking that led people to believe she was “one of them.” The “them” was clearly “not white.” The ruse worked for a while, but as most lies tend to do, it unraveled. And then the
Flowers: Reflections on mortality from neighborhood with high mortician count (opens the original)
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My office is right next door to a funeral home, Monti-Rago, on South Broad. It’s also across the street from two other funeral homes. I am literally surrounded by death, as well as a chiropractor, a tanning salon, a florist and a few sandwich shops. I think that this is a fairly accurate summation of life down here: You eat, you tan, you die, and occasionally you get your spine straightened. When I first moved to South Philly exactly 30 years ago, the number of mortuaries was surprising. I under
Flowers: 9/11 changed all Americans alive at the time, and it’s good to remember that (opens the original)
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When my good friend asked me to speak at the 9/11 ceremony in Ridley Park, I told him that I was a little surprised that he would think of me, although technically I was the speaker equivalent of a designated hitter since the other guy had bowed out. I was not a victim of the terror attacks in any immediate way. I didn’t lose any close friends or family. I am not, nor am I relatedto a first responder. I wasn’t on the front lines in Afghanistan or Iraq, like my friend and so many of his comrades,
Flowers: About Lindsay Clancy, the case, the lawyer and her supporters (opens the original)
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Every lawyer who passed the bar (and some who didn’t) have an opinion on the Clancy trial. I have an opinion, too, and it’s about as expert as the others, which is to say simply part of the social media scrum. Not being a criminal defense attorney by trade, but having gotten a B in criminal law at Villanova, I am informed on some of the legal niceties. As an aside, if Lindsay were an immigrant who’d overstayed her visa, I could wrap up this controversy in a minute. The point is that we don’t nee
Flowers: Finding an appreciation of Gloria Steinem at her passing (opens the original)
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Gloria Steinem, the iconic and sexiest of all the second wave feminists passed away this week at the age of 92. That’s almost a century of being on the public stage, almost a century of being consequential, almost a century of making herselfthe center of a conversation, a movement, a cause. I always knew that one day I would be writing about her death, and I’m glad that it has come later, rather than sooner. Unlike Marc Antony, who came to bury Caesar without dispensing any praise, I’ve reached
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