tersely stated: whence my penchant for the pragmatic perspective?

 
well, from the jus’ ‘cause.  i mean, bourgeois and highbrow speculation alone shall never suffice, especially for the folk who’ll almost never encounter such philosophy anyway…but who am i to say, right?  maybe more authoritative for you, and certainly more elegant, is James who asserts it this way:
 
 “the thinker starts from some experience of the [...]

a (w)right politics: clever sarcasm on race as an illusory thing

 
with permission i post the following note by Mr. Jay Gardner, a fellow cleric and introspective brother who offers this rather pungent commentary on race as accented by the recent obama campaign efforts.  this note follows our personal discussion on the current campaign after having critical discussion about why we are reluctant to support “whoever.”  warning: i [...]