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I made the following 5-minute public comment at my local Hanover County (VA) Board of Supervisors’ meeting on Wednesday, January 12, 2022. I wanted to share it here in honor of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday this year. Here’s a video of me delivering this public comment (I’m at the 57:15 min mark.) Context: The Board […]
When my kids were in preschool, my oldest was given some homework, flashcards to prepare him to begin school the next year. Upon a closer look, I saw that it was a lesson in how to determine who doesn’t belong. A lesson, I wanted to unteach them. In the 1990s my colleagues and I used […]
When you hear “descendants of Confederates” who do you picture? Maybe you imagine a Confederate flag-waving White country boy? Or do you picture an older White man with a crisp business shirt who attends monthly Sons of Confederate Veterans meetings? Perhaps you imagine a fancy white-glove wearing elderly White woman who defends statues of Confederates? […]
The “Tower of Faces” is an exhibit in the U.S. Holocaust Museum. Perhaps you have seen this powerful installation? The tower is intimate, a small room with four walls that extend up three-stories. The walls are lined with 1,500 framed photographs of residents from the town of Eishyshok, Lithuania. The pictures are of families, friends, […]
Not to me. I don’t have any leadership to offer in this moment. White friends, it’s time to listen. It has been for quite some time. As a matter of context: Just in the last few weeks these things happened…Ahmaud Aubrey in Georgia, Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Chris Cooper in NYC, and George Floyd in […]