While summer camps are going on, there is not much more that I can do, and my online reading takes a back, back, BACK seat. So I’m just getting to this. But a goal of mine (and potential conceit) is that my photography eventually develops to the level of Ta-Nehisi’s writing:
Again, I’m a liberal in large measure because, in my time, liberals have been about the business of expanding the national consensus, of including of voices, of attempting to reconcile past wrongs. I don’t think all of those attempts have been successful. But given the choice between that and an ideology that condones Willie Horton, condones Bob Jones, condones discrimination against gays, for me as a black man, there simply isn’t much of a choice.
This holds for other issues outside of race–faced with a group that asks its bureaucrats to censor science, that asks its presidential candidates to deny evolution, that employs phraseologists when faced with the challenges of the environment, I know which one I’ll pick. But even as I say that, I can see the limits of my own thinking–maybe if I had more than an informed layman’s knowledge of the health care debate, I’d think universal health care was a terrible idea. My politics are as much based on trust as they are on actual knowledge–I simply trust liberals more.
via The Practical Limits Of Knowledge – Ta-Nehisi Coates .
You are reading his blog, right?!?
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