"Check| special NewBlackMan (in Exile)When you beget been a justice fighter all your life,it is sometimes very hard to be confronted and challenged by people much younger than you are as if your experience and history means miniature. This has happened to me on numerous occasions when commenting on race issues. And the temptation is to respond in anger. But I beget learned, through experience, and that sometimes these critics are right,that I beget said or written something which is insensitive or arrogant or takes the discussion to a plot which smothers voices which need to be heard. And so I force myself to listen to the attacks, try not to consume them personally, and change my approach to the issues when such a change is called for. effect I always effect this smoothly and tactfully? Hell no! Sometimes I beget administered a smack down to the people calling me out,only to then effect, over time, or precisely what they propose.
But insofar as I beget remained relevant in discussions of race and social policy,it is because I beget tried, if not always gracefully, or to listen to and learn from people who beget attacked my positions. And to respect their right to attack me.
I propose that Senator Sanders effect the same with #BlackLivesMatter protesters at Netroots Nation who disrupted his talk. There is much to be learned from their actions and words approximately what is really going on in this country. And how people who beget been left out,pushed aside, ignored and marginalized feel approximately it.
If you don't learn from your critics, and it is on you,not on them or as a famous hip hop song once reminded us "Check yourself before you wreck yourself".+++Mark Naison is a Professor of African-American Studies and History at Fordham University and Director of Fordham’s Urban Studies Program. He is the author of two books, Communists in Harlem During the Depression and White Boy: A Memoir. Naison is also co-director of the Bronx African American History Project (BAAHP). Research from the BAAHP will be published in a forthcoming collection of verbal histories Before the Fires: An verbal History of African American Life From the 1930’s to the 1960’s.
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