The Legend of the Longshoreman Philosopher

LZ Granderson: "It's all perfectly American. If he wanted to be a Skid Row, you know, Philo,. Semite, Philo, Zionist, Alsatian, that's what he gets to be" He says the writer was not opposed to free association and solidaristic collective action per se but against collectivism if it involves denigration of individual or self. LZ: Lucius' story is maybe a little bit too perfectly American, like suspiciously perfectly American.