Readers Write: Finding hope, Minneapolis elections, Metro Transit, Cuba On hope, and where to find it. July 25, 2021 6:00pm Text size Copy shortlink:
The July 22 front-page article New vets center to fight lethal absence of hope speaks eloquently to a core function of faith in our public conversation, the need for hope.
A number of articles and letters to the editor have recently addressed a number of church/state questions religious influence and religious civic problems and issues. Can the president of the United States be a good Roman Catholic if he supports abortion? What about those church-run schools in Canada that failed so tragically the Indian populations entrusted to their care?Where does civic interaction and religious freedom go astray? Can a religious community be forced to violate their beliefs or lose the funding for their social work efforts if the civic community has changed its mind about a
Readers Write: Critical race theory, policing, space, COVID response Key differences in circumstance. Text size Copy shortlink:
In response to the letter Teach agency, not victimhood :Slavs, Italians, Catholics, Jews, etc., etc., etc., did not come to this country in chains, they were not classified as 3/5ths of a person, they were not treated as animals in every sense of the word.Black folks worked hard (not as heck, but most often to death) when we were in chains, and we continue to work hard, but the oppressor continues to make it difficult to just overcome it until something concrete is done about systemic racism and the oppression of people of color and Black people in particular.
Readers Write: Cuba, Jehan Sadat, military force in Iraq, sidewalks Biden s got a few options. July 18, 2021 6:00pm Text size Copy shortlink:
President Joe Biden sounded noble on Tuesday: We stand with the Cuban people and their clarion call for freedom and relief from the tragic grip of the pandemic and from the decades of repression and economic suffering.
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez appeared on Fox News the same day and declared: And what should be being contemplated right now is a coalition of potential military action in Cuba, similar to what has happened in both administrations in both Republican and Democrat administrations. He suggested aerial bombing.
Readers Write: Fort Snelling s history, the homeownership gap Contradictions are inherent to history. July 2, 2021 5:30pm Text size Copy shortlink:
Katherine Kersten objects to a new narrative about Fort Snelling in her June 25 counterpoint Activists commandeer historical society : The fort is being reframed as a concentration camp, a place of genocide and a site of conscience. In the process, its rich, 200-year military legacy is becoming a footnote, a source not of pride but of shame to present-day citizens.
But history is replete with differing perspectives and contradictions.
Thomas Jefferson wrote perhaps the most revered words our history teaches: all men are created equal.