"We also have to think hard about the revival of racism, how it is expressed and how it spreads like a virus. We have to fight it politically and domestically, as well as personally in our daily lives.
"... Racism is intolerable. Understanding people who are different from us, that’s what we need.
"To that purpose, I keep rereading a marvelous book, Kate Clanchy’s 2008 memoir, Antigona and Me. Clanchy, a London writer with a comfortable life, hired a poor Kosovan refugee named Antigona. She is astonishing, certainly the hardest-working human Kate has ever met, waitressing, nannying, cleaning, mothering, hardly ever sleeping. For five years, Kate and Antigona, so different they might as well be woodchuck and wildebeest, talk about their lives over cups of coffee.
"And yet they are friends..."
Full article: Mallick: Let Utoya — and books — help us fight racism.
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