To add an exclamation point to the environment that exists in tandom with book burning: 11 people have been killed and 67 injured in mass shootings in the week since the children’s deaths in Uvalde.
Category Archives: Diversity
Outside the Fence
The history of the people who lived in the slave house and the “colored” soldiers who fought in our wars is our collective history, and we need to reclaim it, know it, own it, and work together for a better shared future.
The Fire
“Words did not matter. We were celebrating life, we were celebrating community, and trust abounded.”
Fever Signs
I take the temperature of people entering our health clinic. Anyone over 99.5 degrees is sent away. If we took the temperature of America, or even that of the world, we would be SENT AWAY.
The Hajj
I’m an infidel. I’m Jewish. I’m an American, and I’m a woman. Any one or all of these factors put me at risk when I visited Iran in the summer of 2004. To my Iranian friend’s more religious relatives, I was an unwelcome guest.
“The Kindness of Strangers”
“I don’t know how to thank you…” He turned momentarily from his reunion and replied, “Don’t thank me. Just pass it on.”
Roaches: A story of Reflection and Understanding
Those who buy this anti immigrant rhetoric would squish this family in the same way that I’m contemplating killing this bug. So I don’t do it.
Modeling Effective Diversity
Never mind the next few generations because, at this rate, we won’t make it to the 22nd century.
WHY ARE YOU SURPRISED?
Their prejudice runs deep and primordial—its etiology in our genetic history stretching back to pre-historic times. I’m not surprised and not optimistic, unless our national leaders can stop pretending they know who the enemy is and address the real problem—us.
The Hajj
The entry fee into this community was not money; it was TRUST.
Carole J. Garrison 