by roshin | Jul 29, 2020 | Bearing Witness to George Floyd and All Who Suffer from Racial Injustice
Congressman John Lewis just died and his life and his courage are being spoken everywhere. Even my 92 year old mother was telling me about how powerful one person’s life could be. I have been teaching and living with the koan of race and gender for the past two years...
by John Gendo Wolff | Jul 4, 2020 | Bearing Witness to George Floyd and All Who Suffer from Racial Injustice
In 1962, when I was four years old, I saw an African-American for the first time. He had carried my family’s luggage into a motel room in Iowa. I was old enough to notice that he looked different from me, different from my mother, my father, my brother, or anyone...
by roshin | Jul 2, 2020 | Bearing Witness to George Floyd and All Who Suffer from Racial Injustice
On seeing the defaced statue of George Washington in Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, MDReading an article about four confederate statues in Baltimore that quietly came down in 2017, I felt pride to have grown up in Baltimore. Then, I opened an article showing a picture...
by roshin | Jun 30, 2020 | Bearing Witness to George Floyd and All Who Suffer from Racial Injustice
There was almost no education about racism in my early education. I lived in a segregated environment in Billings Montana. There were no African Americans in Billings. The Crow people who were the original inhabitants of the land were segregated on nearby reservations...
by roshin | Jun 30, 2020 | Bearing Witness to George Floyd and All Who Suffer from Racial Injustice
It’s been 36 days since George Floyd was murdered. I’ve been feeling grief for Mr. Floyd’s family and close circle, outrage that it has happened yet again, and shame for being complicit with the entire system that put its knee on his neck.I’ve also been...
by roshin | Jun 27, 2020 | Bearing Witness to George Floyd and All Who Suffer from Racial Injustice
Welcome, everyone, to our council. We’re bearing witness to the suffering of Black, Indigenous and People of Color due to current and historic racial injustice. As we do this, we keep in mind the three tenets of council: 1. Not-Knowing: giving up fixed ideas...
