The Civil Conversations Project exists to provide you with the education that our schools and our national narrative about who we are as a country do not provide in order that you may have information that can help you understand “America’s Race Thing”, and how deeply detrimental, divisive, and harmful it has been to America.
Wayne, thanks so much for sharing this on Veterans Day. A great reminder of how far we’ve come, but only because of the courage of men and women to stand up against what was wrong. To me there is a double heroism in these stories. The conviction to stand up for and serve your country. And the larger, but equally dangerous, conviction to stand up against racism and inequality. Thanks for making history a part of our conversation going forward.
|On March 13, 1944, a driver in Alexandria, Louisiana, shot and killed Private Edward Green for failing to move to the back of the bus.|
My hometown. My junior high school mascot was the volunteers. My high school mascot was the rebels. Both mascots wore confederate gray. However, by the time I passed through junior high ('95) and high school ('99), both schools were extremely diverse and with friends of all races, never once had I had to feel the sting of racism, from my teachers or fellow students. And I'm lucky because my parents did have to feel that bite. The needle is moving. #eracism
Wayne, thanks so much for sharing this on Veterans Day. A great reminder of how far we’ve come, but only because of the courage of men and women to stand up against what was wrong. To me there is a double heroism in these stories. The conviction to stand up for and serve your country. And the larger, but equally dangerous, conviction to stand up against racism and inequality. Thanks for making history a part of our conversation going forward.
Thanks Thor. I wonder who we'd be as a country if we didn't have this race thing.
|On March 13, 1944, a driver in Alexandria, Louisiana, shot and killed Private Edward Green for failing to move to the back of the bus.|
My hometown. My junior high school mascot was the volunteers. My high school mascot was the rebels. Both mascots wore confederate gray. However, by the time I passed through junior high ('95) and high school ('99), both schools were extremely diverse and with friends of all races, never once had I had to feel the sting of racism, from my teachers or fellow students. And I'm lucky because my parents did have to feel that bite. The needle is moving. #eracism