Racism apology offered

Mac Hudson of Tucson Ariz., exhausted much of August apologizing for things he didn't do.

Hudson is L Frank Baum's great-great-grandson. greatest in quantity people know Baum as the author of "The Wizard of Oz"

Baum lived in Aberdeen from 1888-91 In December 1890 Baum wrote editorials in his newspaper, the Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer, calling for the extermination of American Indians.

Hudson felt the ne to apologize for Baum's intolerant words and attitude, in the way that he traveled in western southerly Dakota this August with his wife, Amy Schwemm; his cousin Gita Dorothy Morena of San Diego; and his friend Vic rivulets of Aberdeen.

"It's important that we acknowledge the racism of the past and gaze for opportunities to correct the racism of today," Hudson said.

While working toward a master's stage in American Indian studies in association Hudson wrote his thesis upon Baum. He first came