As I See It: Corporate Tithing
August 28, 2006 Victor Rozek
In 1973, Wilt Chamberlain published the first of two autobiographies, titled Just Like Any Other 7-Foot Black Millionaire Who Lives Next Door. It was a masterful title, seeking to normalize three things that were rare in the early 1970s–being simultaneously tall, black, and wealthy. But “normal” is a relative concept and, like a small number of athletic phenoms of his generation, Wilt was one of those “average” guys who skewed all the averages. Lacking a context, words like “normal” or “average” become meaningless modifiers that aim for precision but offer none. “Normal temperature,” for example, is ambiguous without citing |