(Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer testifying at the DNC in Atlantic City in August of 1964.)
Fresh Air recently re-ran a segment featuring “Freedom Summer,” the documentary directed and produced by Stanley Nelson that chronicles SNCC and CORE’s combined efforts to bring civil rights to Black Americans living in Mississippi during the summer of 1964.
As a white woman from the South who writes novels that attempt to debunk some of the falsehoods of white, Southern nostalgia, I’ve spent years trying to educate myself on the complex legacy of racism in this country. *** In doing so, I have been faced with my own delusions,
(Prayer square and blanket made by the NDPC Knit Wits)
It’s pretty much impossible to say anything definitive about living through this time of global pandemic. It’s all such a moving target. On Good Friday–nearly three weeks ago–I wrote a post that I didn’t end up publishing.
I hadn’t intended to name this blog. But I think “gimme shelter” works–at least during this time when the governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, refuses to order a “shelter in place” for residents, despite the fact that the cases of COVID-19 are growing at a truly alarming rate in the peach state.
March 25, 2020
Hello! Greetings from the edge of … whatever new world we will enter once this surreal season is over. I don’t know what the post-coronavirus world will bring, but I think we need to start imagining what we WANT it to look like.