Mr. Solway,
As someone approaching her 7th decade in a lifetime of well-nigh compulsive reading (“Some people say living’s the thing, but I prefer reading”), I must tell you that, despite the grimness of its subject, your writing takes my breath away.
That you as a Canadian citizen should demonstrate such a profound love and understanding of this country, that equals and in many cases far surpasses that of its native sons and daughters, is heartbreakingly ironic. And yes, you can color me overwrought, because at this moment I am.
Please do not stop—America “hath [desperate]need of thee”! Would that we could drop copies of your masterful essay by the millions from the skies over the continental United States.
So the laurels go to you today, Mr. Solway, because you are doing for us what every American should be doing, and perhaps with examples such as yours, we can and will hold back the black future we seem hellbent on rushing to embrace. Or in words more apt than mine:
“There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I hail as a benefactor every writer or speaker, every man who, on the platform, or in book, magazine or newspaper, with merciless severity makes such attack, provided always that he in his turn remembers that the attack is of use only if it is absolutely truthful.” Teddy Roosevelt
