The Convergence of Two Pandemics
It’s a new day. There’s rain today, rain that is trying to cleanse and heal the mud and pain, the guilt and shame of white discrimination and hatred of blacks and other minorities, through the ages. I was born in Minneapolis, where George Floyd was killed on May 25, 2020. My parents and brother and I moved to California when I was 7 and I returned at 16 one summer to visit aunts and uncles, cousins. The friends they found …