【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 between a hardworking white middle class and undeserving minorities, then workers of all shades will be left fighting for scraps while the wealthy withdraw further into their private we decline to invest in the children of immigrants, just because they don‘t look like us, we diminish the prospects of our own children – because those brown kids will represent a larger share of America‘s our economy doesn‘t have to be a zerosum year, ines rose for all races, all age groups, for men and for forward, we must uphold laws against discrimination – in hiring, in housing, in education and the criminal justice ‘s what our Constitution and highest ideals laws alone won‘t be must our democracy is to work in this increasingly diverse nation, each one of us must try to heed the advice of one of the great characters in American fiction, Atticus Finch, who said ―You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.‖F(xiàn)or blacks and other minorities, it means tying our own struggles for justice to the challenges that a lot of people in this country face – the refugee, the immigrant, the rural poor, the transgender American, and also the middleaged white man who from the outside may seem like he‘s got all the advantages, but who‘s seen his world upended by economic, cultural, and technological white Americans, it means acknowledging that the effects of slavery and Jim Crow didn‘t suddenly vanish in the ?60s。that when minority groups voice discontent, they‘re not just engaging in reverse racism or practicing political correctness。that when they wage peaceful protest, they‘re not demanding special treatment, but the equal treatment our Founders nativeborn Americans, it means reminding ourselves that the stereotypes about immigrants today were said, almost word for word, about the Irish, Italians, and wasn‘t weakened by the presence of these newers。they embraced this nation‘s creed, and it was regardless of the station we occupy。we have to try harder。to start with the premise that each of our fellow citizens loves this country just as much as we do。that they value hard work and family like we do。that their children are just as curious and hopeful and worthy of love as our of this is too many of us, it‘s bee safer to retreat into our own bubbles, whether in our neighborhoods or college campuses or places of worship or our social media feeds, surrounded by people who look like us and share the same political outlook and never challenge our rise of naked partisanship, increasing economic and regional stratification, the splintering of our media into a channel for every taste – all this makes this great sorting seem natural, even increasingly, we bee so secure in our bubbles that we accept only information, whether true or not, that fits our opinions, instead of basing our opinions on the evidence that‘s out trend represents a third threat to our is a battle of ideas。in the course of a healthy debate, we‘ll prioritize different goals, and the different means of reaching without some mon baseline of facts。without a willingness to admit new information, and concede that your opponent is making a fair point, and that science and reason matter, we‘ll keep talking past each other, making mon ground and promise ‘t that part of what makes politics so dispiriting? How can elected officials rage about deficits when we propose to spend money on preschool for kids, but not when we‘re cutting taxes for corporations? How do we excuse ethical lapses in our own party, but pounce when the other party does the same thing? It‘s not just dishonest, this selective sorting of the facts。it‘s as my mother used to tell me, reality has a way of catching up with the challenge of climate just eight years, we‘ve halved our dependence on foreign oil, doubled our renewable energy, and led the world to an agreement that has the promise to save this without bolder action, our children won‘t have time to debate the existence of climate change。they‘ll be busy dealing with its effects: environmental disasters, economic disruptions, and waves of climate refugees seeking , we can and should argue about the best approach to the to simply deny the problem not only betrays future generations。it betrays the essential spirit of innovation and practical problemsolving that guided our ‘s that spirit, born of the Enlightenment, that made us an economic powerhouse – the spirit that took flight at Kitty Hawk and Cape Canaveral。the spirit that that cures disease and put a puter in every ‘s that spirit – a faith in reason, and enterprise, and the primacy of right over might, that allowed us to resist the lure of fascism and tyranny during the Great Depression, and build a postWorld War II order with other democracies, an order based not just on military power or national affiliations but on principles – the rule of law, human rights, freedoms of religion, speech, assembly, and an independent order is now being challenged – first by violent fanatics who claim to speak for Islam。more recently by autocrats in foreign capitals who see free markets, open democracies, and civil society itself as a threat to their peril each poses to our democracy is more farreaching than a car bomb or a represents the fear of change。the fear of people who look or speak or pray differently。a contempt for the rule of law that holds leaders accountable。an intolerance of dissent and free thought。a belief that the sword or the gun or the bomb or propaganda machine is the ultimate arbiter of what‘s true and what‘s of the extraordinary courage of our men and women in uniform, and the intelligence officers, law enforcement, and diplomats who support them, no foreign terrorist organization has successfully planned and executed an attack on our homeland these past eight years。and although Boston and Orlando remind us of how dangerous radicalization can be, our law enforcement