Letter: Shame on Trump
Published: 3/2/2021 12:01:18 AM
If you watched the Jan. 6 attack on our democracy, you would have to accept that our president at the time was a bully who was in denial that he lost the election. He caused a violent, upsetting riot, with Trump flags and hats, anger, and deaths. Donald Trump is no longer our president, thank goodness, but to the Republican Party: Please wake up to the illusion that he is a leader for you. 2020 showed up with the COVID-19 pandemic, and Trump gave us all a reality check. He did nothing. He cares more about himself than you. The truth will prevail.
My Turn: A syllabus for the sponsors of ‘divisive concepts’ legislation
Published: 2/24/2021 10:41:57 AM
An open letter to Reps. Jason Osborne, Keith Ammon, and Glenn Cordelli, sponsors of House Bill 544, a bill that addresses the propagation of so-called “divisive concepts”: Having read HB 544, a bill relative to the “propagation of divisive concepts,” and having compared it to a September 2020 presidential executive order, I was struck by the repetition of ideas in both documents that are simply inaccurate and, sadly, fly in the face of contemporary history.
Solid research has demonstrated that, though we have made appreciable progress toward a racially just society, much structural, institutional racism remains and it will not simply disappear of its own accord. It is simply too integral and too invisibly ingrained in our society for reasonable people to expect that to happen.