Where all sides (will) meet
As a follow-up to yesterday’s celebration of Indigenous People’s Day, a carry-on into the upcoming Thanksgiving season, and a general thought about the current state of American education, here is an article from the High Country News on the country’s land-grant universities, how they came to exist from a war-torn America, and what they’re doing with some of that land now.
In honor of Indigenous People’s Day, we explore Beringia, Two Spirits, Code Talkers, Little Bighorn, and modern indigenous America.
Tyler Childers will speak eloquently for himself. Rolling Stone covered the release last month of the native Kentuckian’s surprise record, Long Violent History, inspired in June of this year.
“Act like adults.” How many times have you heard somebody plead this in utter frustration with others arguing about politics? How many times have you said it yourself? It seems obvious that grown people should be able to resolve differences without bickering or all-out fighting. You manage, at least most of the time, right?
We know the “woke”, and we know the “patriotic”, or at least who wants to be seen that way.
It is that month. The one we have every four years, in which Americans are battered daily with presidential election fireworks until they just want to fall asleep and not wake up again until Christmas morning. This year, however, we’re not sure when Christmas morning is coming, and the fireworks have been going off all year.
As September 18 marked the passage of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the bona fide champion of women’s rights, America quite viscerally felt the end of an era.
A brief relationship history of America’s Thin Blue Line and America’s Black population, from post-Civil War beginnings to modern day protests.
What exactly is racism? Mauve Maude defines, from prejudice to privilege.
