How can education and the tools of new media technology diminish the color line and impact racism?
Marable: Racism is like a social cancer in American life, but it is not inevitable. That intolerance is a product of how society is organized and how people are taught to think. If we create educational tools which allow people to confirm those differences that make them special, without negating or undermining the humanity of other people who are different, then we create a healthier society, a more inclusive democracy–a civil society. History is not simply a discourse of what has occurred, it frames the possibilities of the future. History, therefore, has a certain kind of power. The power of the imagination that informs how we see ourselves and the future. The technology of the new multimedia is an extraordinary revolution both in education and imagination. It is in every way as significant as the invention of the printing press. What this tool does, simply put, is to revolutionize how people think about the construction of new knowledge. For example, at Columbia University we are
