The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: civil rights

  • One City’s Winding Road of Intolerance and Activism

    One City’s Winding Road of Intolerance and Activism

    I see Seattle’s protest culture as a point of pride.

  • Floridians, Here’s What Your Children Will Be Taught

    Florida: where knowledge goes to die.

  • Betty Reid Soskin: An Extraordinary Woman

    “I am so aware that I’m living in my final decade.”

  • Finally, Some Equal Justice in Montgomery

    “We will remember.”

  • The Fantasy of White America

    Que sera sera. For some.

  • “It’s a leaf.”

    I had some business to do at the courthouse. When I entered the building, I waited patiently in line like a good girl to pass through the metal detector. I couldn’t be more harmless if my life depended on it, but I’ve come to accept that this is a world in which one occasionally has…

  • Rest in Peace, Pete Seeger

    It’s a rare thing when I’m moved to actual tears when a public figure dies, but I have to admit the tears are flowing now. The world has lost yet another amazing man. Pete Seeger was one of those unique people who lived his convictions every minute of every day. He spoke out against war…

  • St. Augustine, Florida: Civil Rights Distilled

    Since yesterday was Martin Luther King Day, my mind naturally turns to the civil rights movement. It seems that one of the best kept secrets about that movement were the events that took place in St. Augustine, Florida, just an hour south of where I now sit. St. Augustine is known as our nation’s oldest…

  • Upset that Everyone Now Has the Same Rights that You Do? Oh, Simmer Down.

    Democrat, Republican, Conservative, Liberal, Fundamentalist, Atheist, anywhere in the spectrum, all Americans have to abide by the US constitution. There’s nowhere that says you have to like it. So feel free to pitch a tantrum. I just wish you’d do it in the privacy of your own home, because you are messin’ with my celebration…