bryant

The other day, I was debating the legality of entering my apartment without prior notice with my landlord when my neighbor got home. My neighbor is French; I don't know the first thing about him other than that. He's quiet. My landlord gave up on our conversation, and started haranguing my neighbor about speaking French. "Don't go speaking French around here! I don't like what France has been doing!"

I wimped out; I didn't tell him that my neighbor had every right to speak French if he wanted.

I live about a mile and a half from Harvard; about the same from Tufts, and maybe three miles from MIT. It doesn't get much more liberal college town than this. Still, my landlord was yelling at my neighbor, because he is French.