I am, along with several others in an English class, reading a book by Shelby Steele entitled White Guilt (HarperCollins Publishers, 2006); in this book, Steele documents his experience with racism from a boy growing up in the ‘50s … Not hard to imagine the cultural changes that he has seen! Steele’s approach to the issue of civil rights and the slow demise of racism seems to be a rather fair assessment, placing guilt on both the black and white communities for the way that racial issues have “progressed” to this point (That being said, I am only about half way through the book, it could take a turn). Needless to say, in a class of college students, this type of book gives an entirely new meaning to the word “discussion.”
I have always worked hard to be fair … I try to see things from another’s perspective! My life experience has taught me that people that can’t are not only uninformed, but also unwilling to have a legitimate conversation. However …
If you are going to enter a discussion with other reasonably intelligent people, can we at least have some intelligence behind our words? If you are trying to have influence in a discussion, it would at least seem right to sound intelligent! If you are not … Fake it until you make it!!!
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