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@RobertEllsberg

@RobertEllsberg

I am very grateful to

@AODonnellAngela

for this response to the impulse to “cancel” Flannery O’Connor—whose artistic vision helps unmask and resist the spiritual disease of racism (to which she herself was not immune).

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Angela Alaimo O'Donnell

@AODonnellAngela

Thanks to @commonwealmag for inviting me to tell the true story behind Loyola's cancellation of Flannery O'Connor. Here's hoping it doesn't happen again. @NewYorker @FordhamPress @FordhamNYC commonwealmagazine.org/cancelling-fla

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@RobertEllsberg

@RobertEllsberg

Racism in her stories always functions as a sign of her characters’ distance from grace and self-knowledge. The same applies to her own prejudices. But she and her work need to be part of the conversation we are having today.

3:57 PM · Aug 4, 2020