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Noted YA Author Marc Aronson will be featured on BOOKTV.ORG at 7:00 PM, Sunday night, March 23rd, 2008. (BookTV airs on on the weekends over your C-SPAN 2 cable channel.) Aronson addresses the history of race relations in his book RACE: A HISTORY BEYOND BLACK AND WHITE. This talk was taped at the Brooklyn Public Library on February 27th, 2008. (There may be a brick or two with my name on it in libraries in my home town branches. I believe that over the years, I accrued enough late fines to be considered an investor in the infrastructure.)



Aronson tells us: "I wrote this book to make sense of race and racism now by tracing out their long history. This is a book about deep, disturbing, and personal feelings. And yet it is also about people and events hundreds, even thousands of years ago. As you'll see, I think the two are connected. Race is our modern way of handling emotions that go back to the very beginning of human evolution. That is one reason why race is so hard for us to deal with: in one way race seems as current as science, in another it taps our oldest fears." For more, please see: http://www.marcaronson.com/archives/2007/04/race_a_history.html

Without injecting personal politics into this blog entry, it goes without saying the issue of race is something that is both timely, timeless, and critical to our survival as a community of mankind.

We should be better than what we are.
We can be better than what we are.

And yes, our words matter. Words DO move mountains. Big and small.
A speech can change a life.
Think "I Have A Dream."
Words on paper, written by someone who loves words, like you, like me. And yet those words moved a nation and changed a nation. Never underestimate the gift that comes from your fingertips!


Here's something to think about.
A strange confluence of historic events:
King's I HAVE A DREAM speech: Washington, DC, August 28th, 1963.
The last day of the Democratic National Convention: Denver, Colorado,
AUGUST 28th, 2008 (See http://www.denverconvention2008.com/ )
Someone will accept the nomination of the Democratic Party on August 28th, 2008, 45 years to the day since I HAVE A DREAM entered our nation's collective conscience.

The dream goes on. For better and for worse.

Gouache on illustration board

This is a simplified version of the labyrinth at Chartre Cathedral.
Mazes and labyrinths fascinate me. You may see more showing up here.
In fact, I'm sure you will.