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Old March 18th, 2013 #18
Alex Linder
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We’re stuck in another way, too. Our troubled black communities create in us a tangle of feelings, including this one: a desire for things to be better. But for that sentiment to come true—for it to mean anything, even—I’ve come to believe that white people have to risk being much more open. It’s impossible to know how that might change the racial dynamics in Philadelphia, or the plight of the inner city. But as things stand, our cautiousness and fear mean that nothing changes in how blacks and whites relate, and most of us lose out on the possibility of what Jen has found: real connection.

Whites are responsible for solving blacks' problems? By what calculus? Do black problems even have a solution?

You see where christ-insanity lays its mine. We're supposed to be our brother's keeper. That easily translates into the brothers' zookeeper.

The real solution? As Van Halen said, I don't feel tardy.