What I keep thinking about….

Todd has arranged this tour so well, with appropriate documentaries, movies and music setting the stage for each stop. Life is busy, and it’s good to have the time to watch, read and learn, focused totally on the Civil Rights period, and, for me, what it has to say about the time we currently live in. And that’s exactly what I keep coming back to. I’m from Minnesota, and the events there surrounding George Floyd’s murder have been heavy on my mind for the past year. Over and over, in the things I read and hear on this trip, I see that the excuses that have been made in the past year to counter anti-racism and Black Lives Matter initiatives, for example, are exactly what was said in the 1960’s. Nothing we’ve seen in this past year is really new. This troubles me so much. Would our friends and families, or would WE have been the ones fighting integration if we had lived through the 1960’s? We like to think that we’ve come so far, but really, have we?

Roseann Sachs

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