I am usually pretty good at summarizing arguments of people with whom I disagree. But ever since the George Zimmerman verdict, I have been trying to understand the reasons of those who believe that race played no part in the verdict.
After listening to Cnn’s Anderson Cooper’s interview of Juror B-37 and reading articles by Michael Brown, Linda Chavez, Mona Charen, Pat Buchanan, and others, it appears that the “race-had-no-impact” opinion leaders argue that either George Zimmerman didn’t racially profile…..
“Did you hear about the verdict?” a woman in the church choir in which I sing asked as we settled in for yesterday’s service. As the organist played the comforting strains of a Mendelsohn fugue, people talked about their surprise with the jury’s not guilty decision in the George Zimmerman trial. But I’m not surprised at all.
At the beginning of my sixth grade year, four black kids joined the junior high students at the small private school I was…..
On June 16, 2012, I posted my first blog in order to encourage people to buy my memoir “Breaking Barriers: Working and Loving While Blind,” to book me as a speaker, and/or to interview me. While the book isn’t selling particularly well, it is now available for people with visual impairments and/or with learning disabilities through the National Library Services for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Bookshare.org, and Learning Ally. I have spoken at several schools and service organizations, and…..