"Going White” (6/16/11) so far has received the response I expected – next to none. I put myself out there to spark a discussion about race and culture, but shockingly folks are leery. Maybe people don’t know how to deal with my ambiguity. Pointed discourse has its purpose, and I love it too, but I occasionally break from it so as not to forget that the human brain needs freedom to wander. I think that what distinguishes us from animals is not rational thought but imagination. Eating food when and where it is available demonstrates rational thought, but meticulously planning an imagined future for an idea of “progress” is not. But let me attempt to be less contradictory/circular and more to the point on this post. . . .
