The Fabric of America
I’m back. I’ve been struggling with what I wanted to write this past month and with all that is going on in the world, I felt like now is the time to let others speak. I loved this quote from August Fraser, a student athlete at Dixie State University who was interviewed at an early June protest by a reporter from the St George Spectrum & Daily News. Fraser, who is from Los Angeles had experienced racial profiling and the effects of racism. He spent his first moments at the protest calmly conversing with a man who was shouting at the protesters that “all lives matter”. “I told him about how in the bible, Jesus worried about the one sheep that was lost instead of the 99 that weren’t,” Fraser said. “I was trying to tell him, it’s not that you don’t matter or that we don’t love you, it’s just a matter of the fact that we’re the ones being hurt. That seemed to calm him down and he walked away.” Love to all. Note: Above is a new piece of artwork by a friend of mine entitle...