#mark naison

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/03/11/professor-why-i-am-incredibly-pessimistic-about-the-future-of-public-education/

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Mark Naison, a professor of history and African-American studies at Fordham University, says some whites are angry because their portion of the country's population is shrinking. As the country gets browner, they get angrier.

"They think this is their country, and they're really special," Naison says. "These tensions are going to get worse. We're stumbling toward being a more multiracial society with everyone's culture respected and everyone having a shot at leadership."

Naison says he's not surprised by the surge in racial tension. He saw signs of it while campaigning for Obama in 2008.

"I'm never surprised at the depth of racism in America," he says. "The depths of it are limitless. There is a well you can dig into if you are white that justifies almost any level of abuse that you can direct at a black person that challenges your comfort zone."

Fordham’s Mark Naison, a professor of African American History, is quoted in an article on CNN.com:

The mix of "simmering rage" and growing empathy is a complicated equation, he says, that adds up to more people talking about race -- and racism.

And it's a conversation, according to Naison, that isn't going away any time soon. If people from different backgrounds can open up about their concerns and find common ground, it could be a good thing, Naison says, like a therapy session on a national scale.

"That conversation is difficult," he says. "But our history is difficult. Our present is difficult. We need to talk about it."

Mark Naison, a professor at Fordham University. 

http://www.laprogressive.com/teach-america/

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