By Margaret Randall
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I realized that I myself had sometimes confused theory with fact and went to the dictionary for a definition of each: “Theory. ” “Fact. ” In other words, assumed to be true until scientific testing or later discovery proves otherwise. It all reduces to the dogma of closed minds. A failure to ask questions rather than the humility implicit in listening to their answers and the wisdom to build upon those answers. Walking through Athens’s public forum half a millennium before the advent of our era, Socrates may or may not have been able to imagine how his particular way of reproducing knowledge would unfold through the centuries: the questions 26 he asked and how, the insights that led to further questions, what we now call the Socratic method.
We hoped he would be a different kind of leader. I have thought a lot about race during and since that long campaign. During the primaries, when I didn’t yet know if I favored Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, I thought about gender and race. I really didn’t believe this country was ready to break either of those barriers, and feared the Republicans could win. When Obama achieved the candidacy, I still wondered if a black man could be president. I myself subscribed to the Bradley effect theory. And I don’t even think of Obama as a black man, but rather as a man of mixed race (his mother a white woman from Kansas, his father a black man from Kenya, raised by his white maternal grandparents).
Racism has been a corrosive burden, especially for those who have suffered from it: the black man accused of looking at a white woman, the black child who couldn’t drink from the water fountain, the black woman who couldn’t sit at the front of the bus, the vastly disproportionate number of black people imprisoned even today, and black children still routinely receiving inferior public education. We still revere our black sports stars and entertainers while making life as hard as possible for ordinary black youth.