Accidental Racist: School Closing Edition
Yesterday, I heard a great new song from Brad Paisley and L.L. Cool Jay. Now, I don't listen to a lot of the rap music and like many education reformers I am quite tone deaf, but this song represents a coming together from a white guy who wants to wear his Confederate Flag shirt and an African-American guy who wants to dress fashionably. One thing I picked up from the song is that while white people have done many hurtful things to black people over the years like apartheid and slavery, but most of the offenses that black people have hurt whites with are fashion crimes like wearing doo rags and gold chains. It would be nice if we could get past it.
Now, in Chicago the school debate has made a lot of people uncomfortable with talk of racism. The Tribune today warned that discussing racism is a very dangerous thing that could lead who knows where. I suppose