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But it’s become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak.

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I was fortunate enough to get a job at my alma mater, which brought me back to Indiana after being gone for twenty years.
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But it’s become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak.
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I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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I mean getting people to think about what language actually means before they use it is a good thing.
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I learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn’t bad.
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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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But fortunately there are also really excellent human beings all over the place, too. So it’s about perception and balance sometimes I think.
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I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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