I suppose one of the things that also has tripped me up the most when trying to write “something meaningful” about the precarious nature of black life in our inner-cities is that ever-nagging question: “Other than just write, what are you prepared to do about it?” It is a question that has plagued me over the years as I’ve moved in, out and around the ivory tower and studied black social justice movements in the 19th and 20th centuries. Am I prepared to sacrifice in the ways that my mom and brother have? Or, will I just wind up another empiricist, or worse, a pundit, whose insight continues to be tarnished by my distance from the realities of my people? What can I do? What can we do?
Posted on: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 03:59:03 +0000
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