More and more I’ve been getting this question from readers: How do I engage with my racist family member/friend/coworker? There’s an implication in this question that engaging with a racist can eventually lead to a racist seeing the error of their ways. If I could get white liberals to understand one thing about their fellow …
So, news broke on June 15 that Maine Gov. Janet Mills was opening the whole state back open for business again. I guess it’s not surprising. Her predecessor, the despicably awful Paul LePage, made the whole idea of “Maine is Open for Business” a centerpiece of his eight-year efforts and his rhetoric (“The way life …
“If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there’s no progress. If you pull it all the way out that’s not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven’t even pulled the knife out much less heal the wound. They won’t even …