AVReading Newsletter March: Disruption
For many of those who lived through it, the outbreak of COVID-19 brought about a tremendous disruption to daily life. Virtually all segments of our community were impacted in one way or another. And from this, we are beginning to recognize the many different ways that we took things for granted. It took a major disruption to our lives to come to this realization. When it comes to thinking about racism, it often takes an equally jarring event for the white community to become more aware of its prevalence. For many of us, we were not really aware of the prevalence of police shootings and brutality within the black community until we read about Eric Walters, Michael Smith, and Philando Castille. Our NFL games were disrupted by the silent protests of players who hoped to bring more awareness to the injustices. For many of us, it took books like The New Jim Crow and do...