Our nation has a serious problem with race. Like a grotesque sleeping giant, it has been awakened by our current administration’s fueling of partisanship and xenophobia, the “us vs. them” rhetoric, QAnon conspiracy theories, social media disinformation, and Trump super-spreader rallies. The murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor are nothing new to minorities, who…
Tag: Black Lives Matter
Take the Statues Down
Over the past few weeks, statues of Confederates, slave traders, and Spanish conquistadors are being toppled, and it’s not just here in the US. There’s Bristol England, where protesters tore down the statue of a 17th Century slave trader named Edward Colston and tossed it into the harbor, and Chile, where protesters In Temuco lassoed…
White People, Black Lives Do Matter
I’m a white woman, a daughter of immigrants. My great grandparents on both sides immigrated from Scandinavia and Ireland to seek a better life here in America. I’m as white as they come, raised in a quiet neighborhood in St. Paul Minnesota, my father a Lutheran theologian and pastor, my mother an artist, home-maker and…