RECLAIMING L.A.
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Thank you for the profile of Adobe LA (“Edge-Wise,” by Aaron Betsky, Style, Nov. 20), a group that is doing important and innovative work. However, Betsky said the group “dedicates itself to a simple but ambitious task: documenting and celebrating the ways in which the Latino community has made an Anglo city its own.” Surely he meant that the group is documenting and celebrating the ways in which the Latino community is reclaiming the city that Anglos made their own.
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