A note from the blogger.
The United States of America
is growing up. Sometimes, like now, we take a step backwards, or two, or three.
Out of the rubble of hatred will come a better day, due to the spirit of the
vast majority of people living in this country.
I'm encouraging all writers to consider multi-racial or multi-cultural themes or sub-themes is their stories. Not only to create compelling story but help fight the cancer in our society.
I was encouraged to write Cinnamon & Sugar by the event described by the Washington Post below.
Here’s the beginning of the Washington
Post article describing the event:
Written by Joe Heim, Peter
Hermann, Perry Stein, and Marissa J. Lang August 12, 2018
White supremacists held a
rally in Washington on Sunday, and almost no one but their opponents and the
police showed up.
Jason Kessler, one of the
organizers of last year’s violent and deadly “Unite the Right” rally in
Charlottesville, wanted to hold an anniversary demonstration there, but the city
wouldn’t let him. So he brought his show to Washington, where he hoped 400
supporters would join him for a rally at Lafayette Square, across from the
White House. Fewer than 40 turned out.
The group was met by
thousands of protesters who filled their half of the leafy, seven-acre park
chanting “Go home, Nazis!” “No Trump! No KKK! No fascist USA!” and “Black lives
matter!” They drowned out whatever message Kessler and his small band of
followers had hoped to deliver — and that was their goal.
For opponents, the day felt
like a victory, albeit an often tense and angry one.[Blogger] To me, the event meant hope for a future in which white hate groups would realize they are vastly outnumbered, wrongheaded, and living in a delusional fantasy world supported by their over-inflated egos and under-performing lives. They seem to ignore or not notice what advantages there are to loving other people.
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