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By Our Readers, Patricia J. Williams & Bruce Cumings

This article appeared in the June 23, 2003 edition of The Nation.

June 4, 2003

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MO & THE CHICKS

New York City

Patricia J. Williams's column regarding my comments on the Dixie Chicks during a CNN interview only told half the story ["Diary of a Mad Law Professor," May 26 and June 9]. In that same interview I pointed out--and you can check the tape--that the Chicks' last single, "Landslide," was an obscene "glorification of a natural disaster that kills millions, some say up to a billion every year." (And we wonder why the terror alert was recently raised.) Until the Chicks are stopped I can't afford not to speak out. As Tobias Keith once wrote, "Oh, Justice will be served and the battle will rage. This big dog will fight when you rattle his cage... 'Cuz we'll put a boot in your ass. It's the American Way."

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About Patricia J. Williams

Patricia J. Williams, a professor of law at Columbia University and a member of the State Bar of California, writes The Nation column "Diary of a Mad Law Professor." Her books include The Rooster's Egg (1995), Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race (1997) and, most recently, Open House: On Family Food, Friends, Piano Lessons and The Search for a Room of My Own (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2004.) more...

About Bruce Cumings

Bruce Cumings, chair of the history department at the University of Chicago, is the author, most recently, of North Korea: Another Country. more...
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