Innocent Smith writes…

the following:

I suspect that, should you take the time to read this post of mine, you will either love it or hate it. Or you will love and hate it. It is about a black woman who decided to support her local community on the West Side of Chicago by only shopping at black owned businesses for a year. I know the conservative devil on your shoulder will tell you that it is reverse racist of her to do so. But the Catholic angel on your other shoulder — the one you should listen to — will insist that her decision is about community, not skin color and that it is, in fact, altogether in keeping with distributist ideals.

Anyway, I thought I’d share.

I’m not sure why Innocent supposes I would hate his post (though it is curiously telling that he assumes I would accuse the woman of racism–based on nothing whatsoever in anything I have ever written as far as I can tell).

In fact, as a Chestertonian who is all in favor of people forming whatever local associations they like and patronizing local and community businesses rather than multinational Gigantocorps bent on destroying small business and local communities, I think what Maggie Anderson is doing is the bee’s knees. Send us thousands more like her.