The pandemic news has temporarily been interrupted by another police brutality incident. Good and bad resulted. Good = many people were upset by unfair treatment of others based on the color of ones skin. Many people chose to not only talk but listen to stories of prejudice and racism that still perpetuate our society. The term institutional racism has become common~the idea that policies and practices that look good on the surface can accidentally or not so accidentally perpetuate racism.
Bad = protests around the country including in downtown Madison that started off peaceful turned into violent chaos on more than one night. There were several nights of looting, burning, and destroying of public and private property in the name of change.
Waunakee is not immune to this challenge. In our local news, several teenage boys were caught on video using slurs and during a recent election an anonymous letter to the editor suggested that 'your kind' is not welcome in our town. Many in our town want to be a positive change and this wall mural is an attempt to encourage discussion.
We were due for some rain. It came down in buckets! Morgan and Lacey had a good time playing in it.
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