"Let's Give 'Em Something to Talk About..."

Over the past couple of weeks, there have been a lot of national discussions about race, race relations, identity, politics, and anything else this blog could conceivably cover. Quite honestly, I didn't feel a strong urge to write about any of them - in part because I have watched recent conversations degenerate into "he said"-"she said" and pointing fingers in all the wrong places for all the wrong reasons.

Instead, I present you with the type of conversation that I think is an excellent antidote to the above - as usual, Ta-Nehisi Coates knows what he's talking about.

http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/07/the_limits_of_our_dialouge_on_race_and_beyond.php