Loved this letter. But it was the last question from the last student in the letter that gave me pause. The student asked, “Are people being nice?” Are people being nice?
BARACK OBAMA, remarks at University of Michigan, May 1, 2010
“I had to have Carney look up that last word for me. Where I come from in Chicago, my people don’t have a word for that.”
He later pondered if there was a word for that in Austrian.