Sherman Alexie Quotes
Certainly I'm angry at the way Indians have been treated and continue to be treated. But I don't think it's a helpless emotion.
Alexie, Sherman. Conversations with Sherman Alexie. Edited by Nancy J. Peterson, University Press of Mississippi, 2009.
This was one of his great fundamental questions of mankind which his research began to answer.
Johnson rejected the advice. Busby was not only correct about the Community Action Program which was the major political failure of the Poverty Program, but his analysis was prescient regarding the next decades of American politics.
There is a significant argument as to whether of not race should be used to try and predict the variables that will likely produce crimes. Some social scientists argue that virtually everything correlates with race {633357} and therefore the predictions are meaningless. Here, Kurtz argues that if you do not use race, since it does correlate with so much, then you might as well not try and determine the predictive factors of crime. Reality lies in the center, use race as one of the statistical variables but do not use it for profiling potential criminals and potential suspects unless there is observable and not deduced or inferred evidence of race in the crime.
Sherman Joseph Alexie Jr. is a Spokane-Coeur d'Alene-Native American novelist, short story writer, poet, and filmmaker. His writings draw on his experiences as an Indigenous American with ancestry from several tribes. He grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation and now lives in Seattle, Washington.
