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To: Sam who wrote (61889)	4/26/2008 3:43:59 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541698

It is more about feelings of power and helplessness, resentment and anger. One adage that I have come to believe and that has served me well is that you can't control what others do but you can control how you feel about it and how you react to it. Those feelings that you speak of, IMO, can be diagnosed and treated independent of fixing the problem. That's a large part of where I'm coming from. Sort of like mass cognitive therapy. That isn't what people like Wright would bring to the table. I disagree. I would like to see someone just like Wright lose the rhetoric and the feelings and give a cold, hard look at the current scenario, to make a list, and to be forced to justify the analysis as one has to justify a thesis in college. I think that, if done honestly, would produce an aha moment, the kind of aha moment that he is perfectly qualified to have. And it isn't clear to me that sociological analysis is what will heal racial divisions. You're assuming that solving the problem of racism involves addressing and trying to heal racial divisions. I do not make that assumption. My approach to most things is analysis since that has been my profession and my forte and I know from experience what can be gained from it. I believe that it's applicable to this problem. Healing racial divisions as an approach, the touchy-feely approach hasn't worked yet. Time to try something different instead of or in addition to.