Given the dearth of minority faculty on college campuses, Bond recommends teaching as a career for former Black politicians, but cautions that they’ll “have to become ‘teachers’ and not ‘political figures.’”
“Surely they’ll bring great expertise if their teaching is about what they know best — serving in office and running for office,” he says. “But after a class or two, as was true with me, their students forget who they were and want them to become knowledgeable informative instructors.”
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