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St Dominic s celebrates sesquicentennial 22 Feb, 2021 01:26 AM 3 minutes to read A cheery wave from St Dominic s just before they pass under the railway bridge. Photo / Paul Brooks Paul Brooks is editor of Whanganui Midweek, in your letterbox every [email protected] At 7.30am, on February 18, 1871, 10 pioneering Irish Dominican Sisters arrived at Port Chalmers with the Reverend Doctor Moran, the newly appointed Bishop of Dunedin, who had travelled with the Sisters from Ireland. To celebrate 150 years since their arrival, known as Foundresses Day, staff and students from St Dominic s in Whanganui celebrated with a Te Deum at the church of St Anthony s last Thursday. ....
About what seems like the sudden reaction to the confederate flag before a lot of people it wasn t sudden. some historians have been fighting this battle for 50 years. other activists. this is a long, long struggle. as we move into the sesquicentennial for reconstruction, obviously related to the civil war and the confederate flag, that battle continues. maybe in another 50 years we ll have that right. 50 years. let s go to the book itself. it is a memoir to yourself. that s how it turned into that. i want to talk about real reform when it comes to racial, social justice and race relations. you write this. you may have heard the talk of you write this. you may have heard the talk of diversity sensitivity training and body cameras. they understate the task and allows the citizens of the current to pretend there is a real disas it between their own attitudes and those appointed as ones to protect them. this is increasing scrutiny of police brutality against african-americans. a convers ....
Unlike some of my fellow travelers, i think this is a huge deal. i think symbols matter. i think if you re somebody who has to walk past the confederate flag on the capitol of south carolina in charleston every day that sends a message about what s acceptable and what s not. children growing up today will not see the symbol of an empire of slavery as now acceptable in the state. i think that s really, really significant. you think it takes the next step and actually changes the way we teach the civil war? i mean i think about how we re taught the civil war in sort of main public schools. you think we change that conversation a little bit so that it is a little more honest? a little bit. a little bit. yeah. the struggle will continue. we talked before we came on air about what seems like the sudden reaction to the confederate flag before a lot of people it wasn t sudden. some historians have been fighting this battle for 50 years. other activists. this is a long, long struggle. as w ....