This Blogger has met very few smart people in his life, very few, a handful. This Blogger does not consider experts as inherently smart, just knowledgeable. A smart person is one who can enter any situation, and help one in need to solve the problem by asking the right questions. It is a declining art, like reading the runes. Soon it will be a lost art as thinking is consumed by sophomoric Millennial Group Think. One of the few really smart people    this Blogger knows sent him a flattering email last week; this Blogger would like to share it; “ Gerry!  I love your logic, historical perspective and code breaking ability to connect the dots.  You are non-linear within a linear world within non-linear universe .’ This Blogger was basking in that praise when his inbox was flooded by    emails from    people who had read the NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY REVIEW article about the Tulsa massacre. The article quotes an eyewitness, Undersheriff Maxey. The emails    to this Blogger noted that

In 2015, this Blogger authored a Blog which named the Bollywood film , BAJRANGI BHAIJAAN the best film of the year. After that Blog was published, this Blogger received an email from an Indian intellectual, recently migrated to the United States from India. He praised this Blogger’s taste. Since coming to America, this Indian intellectual has become an activist, marching in every protest against racism in perfidious America. In India, his homeland, he never participated against any discrimination against the lower castes( the Dalits), nor against  Hindus lynching Muslims for eating beef.  This Blogger continues to be amazed by all the migrants to America who never fight wickedness in the land of their births; who never want to make their homelands better. They do however feel a righteous incumbency to stop singing THE EYES OF TEXAS ARE UPON YOU, because the author of the song was inspired by Robert E. Lee telling students that “The eyes of the South are upon you.” This Indian i