Leaving Things Up To God: On Community Activism and Education [#NN12 Reflection]
This past weekend, I had the pleasure of attending Netroots Nation 2012 in Providence, RI as a panelist for “Education as a Right-Wing Wedge Issue” featuring Sabrina Stevens, Martha Infante, and Karran Harper Royal. While on the train towards the festivities, I came across a passage in my current book Malcolm X, A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable, and it continues to shake so much of what I believed about Malcolm. Marable posthumously thumbs his nose at so-called Malcolm scholars, but, more importantly, he inspires us to think of Malcolm’s life in layers and not one of strict demigod orthodoxy.In light of this weekend’s events, I was particularly struck by the following passage. To give some content, one of