Chris raises excellent points. My guess is when you read Ron's [Edwards] chapter 16,WM: Though this is an understandable pride in a work Mr. Jessen and Ron Edwards did together, I think it glosses the best reason for having copies to hand.
where he discusses mediation, you would have a different sense of that and I
do look forward to discussing it once you have had a chance to read that
chapter.
Mr. Edwards has a decidedly different point of view than those most often "heard" in the African American community. When a group decides to tackle a problem, it is helpful to have a hologram, so to speak, of the issue. Mr. Edwards' book provides pieces of the issue. If we are serious about dealing with the issue of how racism afflicts us all, then it's prudent to hear the different voices.
This is an argument for the public library's value to the community, of course. :-)
I do think, though, Mr. Jessen, that one could distill the quotes down to something less than a tome.
WizardMarks, Central
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