Comments on: Life Magazine and the End of Innocence: April, 1968 http://mediaandmayhem.com/2008/04/06/life-magazine-and-the-end-of-innocence-april-1968/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:23:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Steve Gorelick http://mediaandmayhem.com/2008/04/06/life-magazine-and-the-end-of-innocence-april-1968/#comment-133 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:57:12 +0000 http://sgorelick.wordpress.com/?p=69#comment-133 Very wise.

Silence can be louder than screams if you allow it to be.

I am still learning that.

Thanks.

]]> By: Aaron http://mediaandmayhem.com/2008/04/06/life-magazine-and-the-end-of-innocence-april-1968/#comment-132 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:50:28 +0000 http://sgorelick.wordpress.com/?p=69#comment-132 Well written. But truth be told, the silence (willful blindness I think you called it) that allowed life to go back to normal taught a lesson. A lesson where people hear a thought and disagree, but only express silence. And the silence works as approval, when maybe it shouldn’t.

The same lesson we see unfolding in 2008 with Senator Obama and his former pastor. How often have any of us allowed our silence to be misinterpreted as agreement. Too many–black, white, brown, gay, straight, religious, atheist, or whatever other dimension of diversity one might determine is appropriate.

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