as some of you may know, America lost a great historian and social leader this week in Howard Zinn, who died on tour in Santa Monica:
http://articles.latimes.c...-howard-zinn28-2010jan28my knowledge of Zinn comes exclusively from interviews he has done in his later life. he appears in many documentaries on social justice and protest movements, and figures prominently in them.
i don't quite know how to describe how Zinn has effected me, but somehow he has. i guess it is the idea that a person who comes from such humble beginnings can, through the force of his ideas alone,
obtain a sort of modest greatness, is inspiring to me. it also reminds me that it is never too late to change, to grow, to care, and to hope for a better tomorrow.
God Bless you, Howard Zinn: a person i feel completely comfortable calling a Great American.