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Bonnie Beresford's avatar

Glenn: You have enlightened me and challenged me with every post and I have been privileged to support you for years.. You are an essential voice. Please do not retire that voice . STAY!

I have looked for years to find a Black voice who who sees clearly and without (understandable but irrelevant and unproductive) resentment about truly Black and racist issues. STAY!

Your voice is important, deep, thoughtful, controversial, productive, broad, intelligent, provocative, generous and so much more vitally needed today, than any other - especially compared to your intelligent but intellectually shallower compatriot, Jon McWhorter.

STAY!

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Robert Lerman's avatar

I agree almost entirely with your perspective, but as I am celebrating Passover and the freeing of the Hebrew slaves, I do think that the Jewish story played some role in thinking about emancipation. Certainly, the Reverend Martin Luther King and many of the nation's founders were influenced by this biblical story. See the work of Rabbi Meir Soleveichik, for example, on the influence on the founders https://meirsoloveichik.com/speeches-conversations/promised-lands-the-torah-and-the-american-founding/ and his course. Be well, Glenn.

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