HeyJaredThe Civil Conversations Project
Changing the narrative that America tells itself about race.
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A TRIBUTE TO DOLLY (opens the original)
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If you read Heather Cox Richardson, you probably just learned Saturday that Friday was national Dolly Parton day. 9/25…named after her hit movie 9 to 5. Get it? 9 to 5…nine/two-five?Never mind!Thanks for reading The Civil Conversations Project! This post is public so feel free to share it. Every reader helps us do this critical workSha
DEMOCRACY DOESN’T DIE WITH TANKS AND A LOUD EXPLOSION (opens the original)
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A lot of times my writing requires research. Sometimes hours. Occasionally days. And every once in a while many days. Trying to write about the Supreme Court’s sad decision last April to complete the evisceration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 protecting the 15th amendment and henceforth allowing racially based gerrymandering was one of those. The more I researched the more complicated it became until eventually I felt like I just could not do justice in writing about that sad, racist, mean-sp
Thoughts on 9/11 (opens the original)
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Today’s post is starting as so many of my posts start – with no clear idea of where it is going and how I’m going to get wherever it is I’m going. I guess that both my face and my brain both have big mouths that just need to blab. But today is the 25th anniversary of the most devasting attack against the United States since Pearl Harbor so it seems like I should write something. I even went out, purchased a flag, and for the first time in my life I put an American flag on display. Well, technica
FIGHTING FOR OUR DEMOCRACY (opens the original)
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A key mission for The Civil Conversations Project is to help y’all understand how harmful, debilitating, and destructive America’s Thing With Race has been…for all American’s, not just American’s with an abundance of melanin. For example, our country-wide zoning that promotes single-family housing and keeps out the riff-raff by making less-expensive multiple family homes illegal via “race neutral” zoning laws. Or confined to the least desirable areas – wedged between an interstate and a train tr
MY LONG DRIVE WANDERING AND WONDERING (opens the original)
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I’m back! Heavy rain and a hot fire battled it out for 5 or 6 days on the Bare Fire in the Wyoming Range in Wyoming…of course. It took longer than I would have thought, but finally the rain won out. So just shy of two weeks on the Bare Fire, a hundred and twenty-five miles southeast of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, one wildland fire suppression truck was assigned to patrol the perimeter of the fire until there is finally no more heat or smoke, and the rest of us packed up and headed out.
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