Sometimes you should recognize that your own voice doesn’t have any special value and concentrate on listening and learning instead. (Perhaps the president should have thought that way before he made his brief and palid address last night.) I have been thinking about Ferguson today, but I would yield my time to others more eloquent and better placed to comment than I. For instance:

• Peniel Joseph, “Ferguson is a Wake Up Call that We are Not Post-Racial“
• Teaching and Learning in a #Ferguson World (Google doc of resources)
• “The Meaning of the Ferguson Riots” (New York Times masthead editorial)
• “[National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation-Community Relations Service] Meetings Being Planned Across the Country“