A Saturday Aside

Commencement – we go onward! The time for sermons full of advice, caution, counsel, inspiration, and if we are lucky, we’ll receive a little incitement and good thinking points beyond knowing how much of a mess we’re in and that we can fix it. An brief aside from Commencement affairs to share a little Saturday afternoon incitement.

Jay Smooth is one of my favorite people on the Web. I like his posts — lyrical, quick, witty, current, often-hip, with plenty to consider. In this recent post, Jay Smooth’s commentary about Asher Roth starts a conversation on race in today’s America. (Check out his style and the questions he asks about us living in Obama’s America.)

Useful exhortation? Is Jay Smooth on point? Does he have a prescription for how to handle these slights? Can Jay Smooth’s analysis help us to be more aware and more confident when we talk about race? Insightful? Forward-looking? Nonsense? Too pop?

Back to Commencement — here’s to the Class of 2009.

Peace.