Valedictory

By Ian Jobling •  5/26/10

I regret to tell those of you who have gotten something out of this website that I am discontinuing it. Although I have worked obsessively on issues of race for the past eight years, I have always, of course, had other interests. While I managed to keep these in the background, in the past few months, they have been breaking out and forcing their way into the spotlight. As a result, I can no longer find satisfaction in maintaining a website devoted exclusively to race.

I hope readers who are enthusiastic about the issues I have raised here will go on fighting for them. However, also try to remember that, no matter how urgent a political perspective may seem, all perspectives are limited and there is more to life than politics. Sometimes getting outside your customary perspective and patterns of behavior leads you to discover veins of enormous richness in yourself that you had never known were there. Such has certainly been my experience.

I will not stop writing. I may set up another blog, but if I do, it will have a very different focus than this one and will probably be run anonymously.

I will keep this website intact forever, I believe, as there is much on it that, I expect, will remain of interest to many.

I must apologize to people who have made comments over the past couple of months, as I have neglected them and only got around to moderating them today. I will close the comments on this site in a week or so.

Good bye then! I have enjoyed knowing you and participating in the community that grew up around this site. I will always look back on the three years when I ran The Inverted World, as this site was previously named, and White America with great warmth and pride.

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