My Introduction to the Angry Conservative

I was ready to argue politics, but unprepared to go to war over race

I’ve written a few pieces over the last two weeks regarding interactions with conservatives through my writing. I was hoping for engagement and I am definitely getting it whether I like it or not. What surprised me was how much race was the primary trigger for many of the conservative responses to the article. My personal and ‘academic’ perspectives of the responses serve as the basis of this article. The quotes are pasted directly from comments with no editing or grammatical changes.

My New Year’s resolution was to write more. I’ve been published as an academic and have presented a dozen papers at conferences. But for a variety of reasons I chose to focus on producing more consistent content for my website, drillbitnews.com. I have studied international relations, political theory, and American history throughout my 25+ years as a student and professor. I’m an avid consumer of political news and I try to develop broad knowledge on issues as much as possible. I follow CNN and the New York Times but try to match up narratives with stories in the Wall Street Journal and on the Fox News app… then I check out the BBC’s version for a baseline. As far as really digging into political analysis and commentary I felt like I was ready, and I still do.