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One City’s Winding Road of Intolerance and Activism
I see Seattle’s protest culture as a point of pride.
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The Battle of Hayes Pond
Don’t you love it when the good guys win and hate loses?
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Who You Were
I can’t even begin to tell you how happy I am that I’m not who I was as a teenager. Sure, I have many things in common with that girl, but frankly I don’t think I’d want to be stuck on an elevator with her. She was so dramatic it exhausts me to think about…
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Outing the KKK
Back in the early 80’s, when I was 17, I was driving to a local park with an African American friend of mine to go swimming. To get to this park, you had to go miles down this rural road to its very end, then come to a stop at a T junction and make…
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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…