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WEB SITE FOR ROBERT S. GRIFFINThis site focuses on my writing since the late 1990s and what ties it together. It indicates where my published writing can be obtained and makes available some of my short writing, including what I am calling thoughts, written especially for this web site.I am best known for three books published during the 2001-2006 period that examine the status of white or European heritage people and, in places, advocate for them: The Fame of a Dead Man’s Deeds: One Sheaf, One Vine; and Living White. I consider two other books, written in the late 1990s, central to my thinking: Sports in the Lives of Children and Adolescents; and While There’s Time, a collection of essays on education. I’ve written around fifty short pieces during this period—articles, reviews, an afterword to a book, a published speech, a commentary--many of them on the topic of race. In addition, this site contains seventy-five or so thoughts: whatever comes into my mind that I feel pressed to write down and in whatever form it happens to take, essay or reminiscence or something else. I haven't, at least to this point, felt the urge to comment on the events and personages of the day, so I don't consider the thoughts to be blogs. My writings have been vehicles for an investigation of the whole of American society and culture and the way we conduct our individual lives. That has involved me in considerations related to history, philosophy, race, religion, the arts, the mass media, parenting, the process of growing up, gender, education, sports, and personal health and fulfillment. More fundamentally, my writing has been part of my personal quest to live out Nietzsche’s injunction to become what I am. While I have written often about race this last decade, I do not consider myself to be a racial writer. I write whatever is there to be written, and if it is about race, so be it, but I don't consider myself linked to that subject. As it has turned out, my more recent writings have not focused on race. These last few years have brought home to me the importance of living with integrity and courage in the face of adversity. I’m reminded of what newsman Edward R. Murrow said in the 1950s on his television program “See It Now”: “We are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were for the moment unpopular.” I hope it can be said of me that I’m not a fearful man; or better, that I act honorably despite fear. This site has four sections:
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