An Apology to the Chronicle
I was amazed yesterday to learn that someone actually reads these blogs out there. Turns out that I’d tried to make a point - one that I believe in - but that I’d done so in a flip manner. Institutions, it turns out, are people. And people react to being criticized. All very normal. It would help, of course, if I could learn to remember this when writing about others.
So, I wrote a blog about the Chronicle of Philanthropy and the controversy about a column they published on structural racism - a relatively new and, in many circles, respected analysis. Its title included the name of Reverand Wright - the controversial former pastor of Barack Obama’s now former church. In both the column and in the lengthy response to numerous letters to the Editor, the author sprinkled quite liberally references to both Obama and (more…)