Page 4: Time to break the pattern and talk about race - HF Chronicle

Page 4: Time to break the pattern and talk about race - HF Chronicle

Here’s an uncomfortable juxtaposition of stories about white supremacy. The first is from page 90-91 of “The Children” by David Halberstam. It is an account of the stories the students in his non-violence workshops told as they were trying to decide what to do for their first civil rights protest project. “Somebody else told the story of a Fisk biology professor named Mildred Ray who had gone downtown on a summer day with her five-year-old son a…