I Was A Child Of Privilege And

What We Need Is A Gigantic, Messy Community Conversation About What Is Teaching And Learning For The 21st Century. We Need To Engage Communities.

I Haven't Been Silent. I Teach, I Lecture At Universities, I Write, I'm Not Silent.

I Was From My Little Perch In A Prep School I Saw The Civil Rights Movement And It Was Defining The Moral Dimensions Of The Time And I Was Drawn To It And I Read James Baldwin And Read Invisible Man And These Were My Touch Points. But It Was When I Got To Michigan And Saw A Bigger World, A Real World, That I Got Involved.

If You Were Against Slavery In 1840 And A White Person, You Would Have Been Against The Law, The Bible, Your Church, Your Pastor, Your Parents, Common Sense, Tradition, Everything. You Would Have Been Against Everything.

I More Or Less Shared The View That Life Should Be Lived.