Who Is Responsible for Fatherless Black Families?
The Reverend Jeremiah Wright: A memory from the Army Travis Woodson Few people I know had a more abrupt transition from their college education to the workplace than I did. I was enamored of the liberal arts, majoring in philosophy, with a minor in English literature. Practical studies were anathema. But then I graduated. I soon learned that there is not much you can do with a B.A. in philosophy. I recall visiting an employment agency shortly after I graduated. What is philosophy? the lady interviewing me asked, noticing the degree on my application. Its the study of the larger questions in life truth, meaning, beauty that kind of thing, I responded. There was a pause. Well, did you learn to type? So it was that I joined the Army, as an enlisted man. That experience, particularly the six weeks of boot camp, brought an intense dose of reality therapy particularly racial reality, given that my boot camp and many of my assigned units were 30%40% black. I needed that therapy, but it was pa
