Weathering a Storm

Lori Lancaster | November 10, 2016
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Scott Hardie | December 29, 2016
Sorry for being so busy that I wasn't able to respond to this sooner...

I am dismayed at the changes in our country and the world, at forces left festering for many years that now feel the vindication of electoral triumph. I know people thought American values were sullied by the racism and bigotry of Trump's campaign, but sadly, racism and bigotry ARE American values. We are a country that committed genocide against the native occupants of land that we wanted, who kept another group of people chained in forced servitude for centuries to do our manual labor (and who we continue abusing financially and institutionally to this day to enrich ourselves), who interred our own citizens in concentration camps on suspicion of foreign sympathies, who lynched and terrorized our way to a deserving damnation. That we have improved is commendable, but obviously we have not improved nearly enough, and we are far from through with our racism. We have got to find a way to get over it, because ignoring it isn't working, and the victims of it are feeling real effects, as Lori described. I wish we were better, but we aren't ready to be, at least not yet.