"Don\'t talk to strangers" is the advice long given to children by parents of all classes and races.
In this powerful and eloquent essay, Danielle Allen, a 2002 MacArthur Fellow, takes this maxim back to Little Rock, rooting out the seeds of distrust to replace them with "a Citizenship of political friendship." Returning.
Today it has blossomed into a fundamental precept of civic education, reflecting interracial distrust, personal and political alienation, and a profound suspicion of others. "Don\'t talk to strangers" is the advice long given to children by parents of all classes and races