I’m not sure anything in our country can shock me anymore, and that’s saying something.
Not a community vilifying a middle school teacher who was trying to do something right for students, even if it came out wrong. (Side question about the whole Signal Mountain thing from a practical matter: If said teacher or the school or anyone else involved was racist, don’t you think that a) they would have stripped those books – and several others – long before school started, and b) do you think they would have publicized it?)
Not that there are talks about a potential four-hour presidential debate happening on a podcast with a former actor-turned-sports commentator who is most known as a handyman on a sitcom.
Not that one of my favorite places downtown was vandalized, defaced with spray-painted swastikas, and not the theory that 15-year-olds could have done it. Do 15-year-olds have swastikas in their playbook? Really?
Not that the joyous return of the NFL was low-lighted by a protest during the national anthem, preceded by players standing for the playing of the Black national anthem. If memory serves, pregame kneeling for the national anthem four years ago was about calling attention to police brutality and the treatment of Black people by the police, right? And it was not meant as anti-American or anti-military, right? Well, those are difficult dots to connect if you kneel for the national anthem but stand out of respect for the Black national anthem, no?