Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.
My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during...
The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is...
I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage all of my girlfriends have been blonde.