What Does ‘Make America Great Again’ Really Mean?

I was going to write and post a second story today about the Trump campaign, but it will have to wait because I just finished reading an excerpt in The New Yorker Magazine by Al Pacino which comes out of his memoir, ‘Sonny Boy,’ that will be published later this year.

You can read this remarkable piece right here.

Pacino is four years older than me (he was born in 1940; I was born in 1944) and he was raised in the South Bronx on Bryant Avenue when the neighborhood was largely first or second-generation Italian immigrants with some Irish mixed in.

Now his old neighborhood is almost completely what New Yorkers like me used to refer to as ‘PR,’ which used to mean Puerto Rican, but now we say ‘Hispanic’ in order to show how politically correct we all are.

Pacino was the only one of a group of kids who actually attended high school, at least for a couple of years. He went to the old Performing Arts High School in Times Square which was for kids who wanted to study acting or dance.

I went to the original High School of Music & Art, located on the uptown City College campus where you either played an instrument or did some kind of visual art. The two schools ultimately merged and now occupy a location at Lincoln Center down the street from Philharmonic Hall.