Well, firstly, it's because I believe they explain a lot about the history of America and our current situation.
And, secondly, because I believe that we need to move beyond identity politics. That the future of hope and justice and goodness is a future that is outward looking, rather than identity politics, which is inward looking.
This is difficult, for what oppressed group should be expected to embrace difference? A defensive posture is expected, but ultimately detrimental.
Our future as human beings, can't be based on difference, but rather one that embraces what we all have in common: our common humanity.
At the same time, fearless reader, I reject the easy answers from the right that tell people to get over it, that created the false notion of reverse racism, which only makes sense in the context of an original racism that blatantly demands that those that are wronged must not defend themselves.
I suppose that all I ask people to do is keep the door ever so slightly ajar; to be defensive, but also to be open to the possibility that it doesn't have to be this way; to look for possibilities for forging truly human communities of love and justice and equality and freedom.
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