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We just saw Juno Diaz speak. He is brilliant and on the right side of the issue. His books are wonderfully entertaining.
How do you know he's on the right side of the issue?
We just saw Juno Diaz speak. He is brilliant and on the right side of the issue. His books are wonderfully entertaining.
I have yet to see any brilliance from him. He has an engaging writing style but his life perspective is seriously misguided
I have yet to see any brilliance from him. He has an engaging writing style but his life perspective is seriously misguided
http://
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/junot-diaz-criticized-by-dominican-republic-consul/?nlid=44946860&_r=0
How do you know he's on the right side of the issue?
If he agrees with me, how far off can he be?
I have yet to see any brilliance from him. He has an engaging writing style but his life perspective is seriously misguided
The literary world is filled with brilliant writers that you may find eccentric and outside the mainstream.
Left-wing moon-bat though.
You say that as if it's a bad thing!
IMHO he writes like a gift from G*d. He also has the reputation for being an excellent teacher. Not a lot of writers can do both.
That's very appropriate, but I'm sure Junot will hardly feel anything that the highest level of distinction the DR gives no longer applies to him. Maybe Haiti can make it up by giving him the highest distinction from over there, he would probably fight with himself to hold the tears of joy in such a case.Junot D?az Criticized by Dominican Republic Consul
By ANDREW R. CHOW OCTOBER 25, 2015 3:20 PM
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot D?az has come under fire from the Dominican Republic’s consul in New York for criticizing the government’s immigration policies. Eduardo Selman, the Consul general, called Mr. D?az “anti-Dominican” and stripped him of an Order of Merit medal.
Mr. D?az, who was born in the Dominican Republic, has had a long history of protesting that country’s removal of undocumented Haitian migrants. “The expulsions are violations of the workers’ human rights and of the country’s own laws,” he wrote in a joint opinion article with the Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat in The Times in 1999.
In June of this year, Mr. D?az and Ms. Danticat led an event in Miami protesting the Dominican Republic’s efforts to deport hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrant workers. Mr. D?az called the situation a “state of terror.” Last week, Mr. D?az and Ms. Danticat reportedly met with Congress to push for a resolution condemning the Dominican Republic’s policies.
Mr. Selman revoked the Order of Merit award given to Mr. D?az in 2009. “We declare emphatically that the Dominican Republic has acted with transparency to the world in the implementation of the migratory measures and there has been no case of violation of human rights,” Mr. Selman said in a statement in Spanish late last week.
Mr. D?az did not respond to requests for comment at the time of publishing.
So he should stick to what he is good at, and stay away from the political discourse as he sounds ill-informed about Haitian/Dominican issues.
Spot on! Matters of humanity should only be discussed among career politicians and businessmen!!
Spot on! Matters of humanity should only be discussed among career politicians and businessmen!!
Hardly but one should at least use facts to support their stand.