If you never heard Jonna Ramey's letter
If you never heard Jonna Ramey's letter
Here you go...
In 2017, Utah sculptor Jonna Ramey wrote an open letter to white supremacists after a “Unite the Right” tiki torch parade turned deadly in Charlottesville, Va. The letter ran in The Salt Lake City Tribune.
Ramey, a white woman, was 67 at the time, and she serves as a great example for us to use our skills — whatever they are — to reach out and shout out.
As for the rally, from an NPR five-year perspective:
Neo-Nazi James Fields rammed his car into the crowd, injuring dozens of people and killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer. Two state police officers monitoring the scene died in a helicopter crash.
The killer, who pleaded guilty to 29 hate crimes, is serving two life sentences. You can read more about Ms. Heyer here.
(Letters Live is a series of famous people reading famous — or should-be-famous - pieces of writing. You can learn more here.)
Well there you go. As black parents have generationally sat down our children to have “ the talk”, ( What it means to be black in America) white patents need too, to have “the talk”, ( what it means NOT, to be white in America) before we can be what America is supposed to be.
I pray that day will come.
Until we’re willing to weep for the children of our enemies we’ll always have enemies.
Yep. Flooding the zone with good things is what there is to do.
Impatience and wanting things to be finished and maintenance-free is how we got here.