The children who are suffering [most] in this country, who are having trouble in school, and for whom the murder and suicide rates and economic dropout rates are high, are boys — especially boys of color, for whom the whole educational system, starting in kindergarten, often feels a form of exile, a system designed by and for white girls.Pre-election discussions should be about material issues (rising inequality, a rotting infrastructure, health care, the cost of war, etc.) not about sentimental symbolic issues (role models). It's the 21st century people -- time to move beyond the identity politics that have paralyzed the American left.
Sunday, January 13, 2008
After Identity, Politics
Thank you Lorrie Moore for rejecting the Clintonistas' sentimental appeals for female votes by reminding us of the Clintons' conservative political record and thank you even more for stating what no male educator dares to say in a public forum:
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Seething rage comes screaming across here, seams stretched to breaking over what can only be your very own pull-quote... What else did she say? And where's BO's rave that you can rave on? Who are you backing, if not Barack? How can mudslinging be a leftwinger's trait, if liberal idealism is grounded in acceptance and promotion? Or, this is maybe a sly attack on your former party, a la that Nader hoax to siphon democrats' votes... Or an anarchist cooking banana peels to get a buzz, maybe... Anyway, rant on, if you must. Just a friendly hello from the old "dark ages" at Coe, and kudos on your Radiohead review, which is topnotch as per usual, that alt-view honed at school.
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