June 2008
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To Those Who Encounter Difference
Let’s just admit it to one another: Our differences make us uncomfortable. They make us question ourselves; they make us question the way we are living. And that is why we usually surround ourselves with people who we think are “like us.” Republicans with Republicans. Jews with Jews. Homeschoolers with homeschoolers. I guess when we [...]
To Ralph Nader
We’ve always admired your critiques of the power structure. But this past week, when you blasted Barack Obama for pandering to “liberal white Americans” by trying not to be “politically threatening to the white power class and the liberal intelligentsia,” we think you got it wrong. You critiqued Obama for not campaigning “as Jesse Jackson [...]