Waging Peace
Making Lasting Contact with Iran in 2021 By Kate Cavanaugh on January 1, 2021 at 9:30 AM
Like many older Americans who live alone, I’ve spent the last ten months without tactile contact with another human being. So, like everyone else, I’m eager for universal mask-wearing and the widespread distribution of a vaccine, so we can reach herd immunity, stop “socially distancing,” and get back to being literally in touch. Meanwhile, among the many parallels that this pandemic has suggested, the events since the death of George Floyd have reinforced how systemically white Americans are distanced from people of color, especially Blacks, and how much all racial and ethnic groups need to have meaningful contact with each other to finally lead to some real change in this historical and ongoing inequality