ABSTRACT
Cornel, you and I have brought to our relationship as friends and comrades in struggle the willingness to love compassionately, the willingness to engage intellectually with the kind of critical affumation where we can talk, argue, disagree, even become disappointed in each other, yet still leave one another with a sense of spiritual joy and renewal. Hence our desire to share these discussions with other people, with a community of faith, not to necessarily invoke a religious community, but a community of comrades who are seeking to deepen our spiritual experience and our political solidarity, and others of us seeking primarily to deepen our understanding of Black life and Black political experience.
