Relational

Ebonics was controversial in the nineties because talk radio hosts needed fresh material, but really it was all about teaching a way of speaking to students whose parents spoke differently. Barack Obama came under fire because of what his pastor said, but he wouldn't denounce his pastor for the same reason he wouldn't denounce his grandmother. Lately, people who agree with me politically have been arguing in favor of giving up and writing off Trump supporters as crackers, stupid, beyond reach. The system-level conflict between the polarized wings of our political spectrum has its roots in the violence done to deliberation by past court decisions. Loving people includes accepting their flaws as part of them, just as they accept my flaws as part of me. We should be willing to love people who belong to our community, flaws and all, flawed ideas and all, instead of infrahumanizing them and dismissing them as enemies. We teach propaganda techniques to students, but I increasingly am of the opinion that there's one