William Raspberry Resigning: "What I'll Do Next"

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I've taken it as my next-step project to help restore the faith that education can work wonders and to help another generation of young people learn to ask: What's next?

But within my personal limitations. The problem may be nationwide, but I've chosen to start in my home town of Okolona, Miss. I've mentioned the project -- Baby Steps -- before. It is my attempt to renew faith in the magic of education and to spark a faith in the efficacy of community. I believe that pulling a community together around the future of its children can do wonders to transform both.

The problem is that the effort is about to outgrow my ability to fund it out of pocket. And that brings me to my most immediate reason for stepping down now: I need to raise money to sustain and expand Baby Steps, and there's no way for a journalist to do that without being involved in a conflict of interest.

And so, although I'll continue to teach for a couple of years, I take my leave from a job that has given me extraordinary satisfaction and pleasure for nearly four decades. I thought you might want to know what's next.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/25/AR2005122500653.html

Great things he has planned.

I am glad he is resigning as a journalist. I despised his columns on how to fix marriage. All of these columns on marriage started and ended with what women had to do - essentially saying that women needed to go back to the way it was in the 1950s. Men NEVER EVER had to do a thing according to his 'wisdom'.

The height of ridiculous came when Raspberry in the late 90's figured out that something big happened in the 60's that affected marriage and the culture in general and he wanted to share his insights. Raspberry didn't write about marriage for many years after that. I think they laughed him out of the office.

and I would ask, What kind of education?

I read the Wash Post for many years and never agreed with him, it sounds like a noble undertaking and I will reserve judgment, but I dont think he is a friend to the kind of nation we had or want to get back.