Historical background for current and future activism.
The original draft of this post observed events as of mid 2022. Since the last published post in 2021 there’s been more shooting of black men, women and children. Too many resulted from highly questionable circumstances ranging from suspicion of firearm possession, profiling, to fleeing a traffic stop to executing a no-knock warrant and self-defense…
Pause and think about this. It is 1619 and a group of Africans who were destined to become indentured servants landed on the shores of the Virginia colony. Soon the European settlers realized that these indentured servants were easily identified. Voila, here begins slavery and the growth of the products they labored to plant, tend…
At this point in time I keep discovering hills and valleys of emotion which I’m sure is, to one degree or another, not a unique revelation. Your emotional terrain is most likely similar. I am a child of the sixties, and despite witnessing/living through the moment of assassinations of political figures/activists, historic marches and riots,…
Sly Stone released an album June 30, 1973 called “Fresh” and on it is a tune: “Thankful N’ Thoughtful”. A lyric from that tune is “People got to be reminded, where it’s really at…” Project Chain of Change takes that admonition/observation/whatever you want to call it…seriously. History has to be kept in the foreground from…