writing teachers everywhere tell their students that context is everything. but if the response to a.g. eric holder's remarks last week to justice department employees is any guide, teachers everywhere are wrong. Full Story »
Posted by Patricia L'Herrou
a very thoughtful, interesting and intellectual piece which places the discussion of eric holder's remarks in a much larger context, not of race relations as might be expected from an african-american professor/novelist, but the one of how we reject complex ideas. he uses a number of other examples, discussing our reduction of issues to extremes/fundamentalism. he reminds us that 'democracy needs dialogue more than it needs bumper stickers'.
