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Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Done blogging for awhile
I won't be posting on here for awhile... I feel like I've shared my heart and hope it's helped others to be aware of issues they may have not thought of before. But I feel like it's started to become more of a hostile place (at times) and that's not what I need or want. I am taking a break for awhile. Peace.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
My thoughts on Obama's first month...
He's been in office for a little over a month now. My thoughts are a bit mixed on what he's done in his first month. I really enjoyed his Inaugural Speech. A few of the highlights I found most moving were:
"To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West: Know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy. To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.
To the people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow; to nourish starved bodies and feed hungry minds. And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world's resources without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change with it.
Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested, we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back, nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations."
I was disappointed that he signed the Freedom of Choice Act. While I DO believe that women globally should be given more access and information about contraceptives and responsible sexuality, I don't believe we should be helping to fund abortions. Period.
I am mixed on the stimulus package. I am personally fiscally conservative. If our nation is going to take out 800 billion to "stimulate" our economy, I'd much rather see us give it toward eradicating world hunger and the AIDS crisis. I would gladly go into debt and send my children into debt if it meant millions of others could live. I don't know whether or not the stimulus package will work... I've heard arguments on both sides and I have a feeling that our economy will rebound eventually as the ebb and flow of economies go through these times and eventually come out again. In the meantime, I'm thankful for the perspective it's given us on how frivolous it is to even complain about our jobs. Thank God we have jobs and can afford the luxuries like clean running water, heat, electricity, television, and internet!
What are your thoughts on his first month in office?
Friday, February 20, 2009
Is it because I'm white?
Had a couple of interesting interactions with the police lately:
1. My neighbor and I were walking our babies around the neighborhood on an unusually warm February day. Several people were out and about. A police officer pulls up and asks what we were doing here. We said "We live here". He said, "Where?" We said, "The 2800 block". He asked what house specifically, to which we didn't reply, but just said, "Down there." He looked at us oddly and drove off. We wondered if our skin color was different if he would have stopped us?
2. I stopped at a gas station just north of my house to pump some gas. It was cold and I was in a hurry. A man came up to me and asked if he could pump my gas for me for some money. I never carry cash on me, so I honestly told him that I was fine and I didn't have any money on me. He left. A few minutes later a police officer came up to me and asked me if I was okay. I said I was fine. He asked if the man was harassing me and I said, "He asked if he could pump my gas." The officer left and a few minutes later I see them arresting the man. The police said that he didn't want people to feel "unsafe". I told him I didn't feel unsafe. He said the man had crack cocaine on him. I hope they are able to get him into a good rehab program (of which there are unfortunately none in our area). And I couldn't help but wonder if my husband had been the one pumping the gas and the man had approached him, would the cops have been so quick to arrest him?
1. My neighbor and I were walking our babies around the neighborhood on an unusually warm February day. Several people were out and about. A police officer pulls up and asks what we were doing here. We said "We live here". He said, "Where?" We said, "The 2800 block". He asked what house specifically, to which we didn't reply, but just said, "Down there." He looked at us oddly and drove off. We wondered if our skin color was different if he would have stopped us?
2. I stopped at a gas station just north of my house to pump some gas. It was cold and I was in a hurry. A man came up to me and asked if he could pump my gas for me for some money. I never carry cash on me, so I honestly told him that I was fine and I didn't have any money on me. He left. A few minutes later a police officer came up to me and asked me if I was okay. I said I was fine. He asked if the man was harassing me and I said, "He asked if he could pump my gas." The officer left and a few minutes later I see them arresting the man. The police said that he didn't want people to feel "unsafe". I told him I didn't feel unsafe. He said the man had crack cocaine on him. I hope they are able to get him into a good rehab program (of which there are unfortunately none in our area). And I couldn't help but wonder if my husband had been the one pumping the gas and the man had approached him, would the cops have been so quick to arrest him?
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Some examples of white privilege
I'm listing this from an article written by Peggy McIntosh. I list this simply so we can be more specific about exactly what white privilege is and how we benefit/suffer from it. I have highlighted ones that I feel I specifically benefit from. This is not to say that this list applies to everyone or that white people across the board benefit from it all the time. I agree whole heartedly that we all experience discrimination for various things, but I want to dedicate a little more time on this blog to talking about white privilege. My hope is that it will bring awareness to the things we *may* take for granted that others are not given the same courtesy.
1. I can, if I wish, arrange to be in the company
of people of my race most of the time.
2. The day I move into new housing that I have
chosen, I can be pretty sure that my new
neighbors will be neutral or pleasant to me.
3. When I am told about our national heritage or
about “civilization,” I am shown that people of
my color made it what it is.
4. I can be sure that my children will be given
curricular materials that testify to the
existence of their race in all classes, in all
subjects, at all grade levels.
5. If I want to, I can be pretty sure of finding a
publisher for this work on white privilege.
6. I can go into a supermarket and find the
staple foods that fit with my cultural traditions,
or into a hairdresser’s shop and find someone
who can cut my hair.
7. I can swear, or dress in secondhand clothes
without having people attribute these choices
to the bad morals, the poverty or the illiteracy
of my race.
8. I can do well in a challenging situation without
being called a credit to my race.
9. I am never asked to speak for all the people
of my racial group.
10. I can remain oblivious of the language and
customs of persons of color who constitute
the world’s majority without feeling in my
culture any penalty for such oblivion.
11. I can criticize our government and talk about
how much I fear its policies and behavior
without being seen as a cultural outsider.
12. I can easily buy posters, postcards, picture
books, greeting cards, dolls, toys, and
children’s magazines featuring people of my
race.
13. I can go home from most meetings of
organizations to which I belong feeling some
what tied in, rather than isolated, out of
place, outnumbered, unheard, held at a
distance, or feared.
14. I can choose blemish cover or bandages in
“flesh” color and have them more or less
match my skin.
15. I can turn on the television or open to the front
page of the newspaper and see people of my
race widely and positively represented.
16. Whether I use checks, credit cards, or cash,
I can count on my skin color not to work
against the appearance of financial
responsibility.
17. I can arrange to protect my children most of
the time from people who might not like them.
18. I can take a job with an affirmative action
employer without having co-workers on the
job suspect that I got it because of race.
19. I can choose public accommodation without
fearing that people of my race cannot get in or
will be mistreated in the places I have chosen.
20. I can be sure that if I need legal or medical
help, my race will not work against me.
21. If my day, week, or year is going badly, I need
not ask of each negative episode or situation
whether it has racial overtones.
22. If a cop pulls me over, or if the IRS audits our
tax return, I can be sure it is not because of
my race.
23. If I get angry and ask to speak to the “person
in charge,” I can be fairly sure I will be talking
to a person of my race.
24. I did not need to teach out children about
systemic racism for their own daily physical
protection.
25. I can go shopping alone in department stores
near my house without being followed or
harassed by store detectives on the grounds
that I may be shoplifting or soliciting.
26. We were able to teach our children that the
police were their allies, and that they should
dial 911 if they had and emergency.
27. In my neighborhood, I can be sure that the
police will not harass me because of the color
of my skin.
28. In my neighborhood, any police officer who
might need to arrest people in my family is
likely to be a person of my race.
29. Criminality is not imputed to me as a genetic
component of racial character; I am not
assumed to belong to a group of people
predisposed to crime.
30. The word “criminal” in the dominant culture
does not conjure up the faces of people
whose skin color is like that of my father,
mother, brother, sister, husband, nieces, or
nephews.
31. I have never heard or read the suggestion
that ll the people of my color ought to be
locked up or killed. Even Islamic
fundamentalists do not call for the killing of all
people of my color, only certain “morally
corrupt” ones.
32. In World War II my grandparents, despite
having German ancestors two generations
ago, were not locked up by the U.S.
government in internment camps on the
suspicion or pretext that they might be
traitors.
33. Nearly all of the lawyers and judges who
study, write about, argue, debate, and
practice law in the U.S. are people of my
race.
34. Lawbreaking by the U.S. government with
regard to treaties with Indian people was not
taught to me as a criminal aspect of my racial
heritage.
35. Deceiving Indians is not described as a
genetic or inherited trait of Caucasians.
36. Refusing to honor Indian treaties today is not
shown to me as lawbreaking by white people.
37. The U.S. government has never made it a
crime for me to speak my native language or
observe the religious ceremonies of my
parents and grandparents.
38. The prison system is thoroughly controlled by
people of my race.
39. The constitution I am subject to was created
by people of my ethnic heritage to apply to
some people of my ethnic heritage and to not
apply to people of other races.
40. I am assumed to be entitled to whatever legal
defense I can afford, even if it allows me to be
acquitted of a crime I have committed.
41. If I am suspected of being guilty but am
acquitted, I will be seen as someone who got
through the cracks rather than as a person
who especially deserved not to get through
the cracks.
42. Those who have been able to afford the high
costs of legal training have been, for the most
part, people of my race.
43. Lawyers featured as experts by the media are
overwhelmingly people of my race.
44. Those who have been able to pay lawyers’
fees and legal costs have for the most part
been people of my race.
45. A successful tax evader in my ethnic group is
usually portrayed as a cheater or even a
victor, but not as an innate criminal or a
representative of a whole race of people who
drain society.
46. A deadbeat dad in my ethnic group is
portrayed in the media as financially but not
sexually irresponsible.
47. When I walk into the courthouses of my
country, I can expect respectful treatment
from the receptionists.
48. As a child, I heard jokes and sound tracks
that cast people of other races as habitually
dumb and coarse, or else sneaky, shifty, sly,
malicious, or underhanded, and left people of
my race protected from such typecasting.
49. The voiceovers of criminals, shifty individuals,
and villains in Disney films and in ads rarely
sound like people of my racial/ethnic group.
50. If I stand in line at the bank teller’s window, no
one looks strangely at me, as though they
have a problem with my being there.
51. If I suffer damages and decide to take a case
to court, the people I see in the legal system
will probably be people who were trained to
trust my kind and me.
52. I can stand behind another person at an ATM
machine without being feared as a potential
mugger.
53. If I am laughing with friends on a street at
night, it is not assumed that we are in a gang.
54. A realtor has never discriminated against me
to “protect property values.”
55. No one has ever suggested that I might have
dealt drugs in order to afford a certain car or
house.
56. The men of my race who took 400 billion
dollars in the 1994 U.S. S & L (savings and
loan) scandal are not branded as criminals or
seen as enemies of the U.S. people, even
though the money has never been returned.
57. When I think of prisons, I do not have to think
of people of my race as disproportionately
serving time in them, having longer than
average sentences, and being executed in
greater numbers.
58. I am allowed to believe, and encouraged to
believe, that people of my race are in general
law-abiding rather than law-breaking.
59. TV shows and films show people of my color
as the main defenders of law and order;
cleverest detectives, best lawyers and judges,
and wiliest outlaws.
60. Portrayals of white males on TV as criminals
and violent individuals do not incriminate me
as a Caucasian; these males, even the
outlaws, are usually presented as strong men
of a quintessentially American type.
61. Illegal acts by the U.S. government, in the
present and in the past, around the world, are
not attributed by whites to Caucasian
immorality and illegality.
62. Bad race relations in the United States are
not attributed by whites to criminal behavior,
despite a history of race-related breaking of
laws by whites over the entire span of Anglo-
European life on this continent.
1. I can, if I wish, arrange to be in the company
of people of my race most of the time.
2. The day I move into new housing that I have
chosen, I can be pretty sure that my new
neighbors will be neutral or pleasant to me.
3. When I am told about our national heritage or
about “civilization,” I am shown that people of
my color made it what it is.
4. I can be sure that my children will be given
curricular materials that testify to the
existence of their race in all classes, in all
subjects, at all grade levels.
5. If I want to, I can be pretty sure of finding a
publisher for this work on white privilege.
6. I can go into a supermarket and find the
staple foods that fit with my cultural traditions,
or into a hairdresser’s shop and find someone
who can cut my hair.
7. I can swear, or dress in secondhand clothes
without having people attribute these choices
to the bad morals, the poverty or the illiteracy
of my race.
8. I can do well in a challenging situation without
being called a credit to my race.
9. I am never asked to speak for all the people
of my racial group.
10. I can remain oblivious of the language and
customs of persons of color who constitute
the world’s majority without feeling in my
culture any penalty for such oblivion.
11. I can criticize our government and talk about
how much I fear its policies and behavior
without being seen as a cultural outsider.
12. I can easily buy posters, postcards, picture
books, greeting cards, dolls, toys, and
children’s magazines featuring people of my
race.
13. I can go home from most meetings of
organizations to which I belong feeling some
what tied in, rather than isolated, out of
place, outnumbered, unheard, held at a
distance, or feared.
14. I can choose blemish cover or bandages in
“flesh” color and have them more or less
match my skin.
15. I can turn on the television or open to the front
page of the newspaper and see people of my
race widely and positively represented.
16. Whether I use checks, credit cards, or cash,
I can count on my skin color not to work
against the appearance of financial
responsibility.
17. I can arrange to protect my children most of
the time from people who might not like them.
18. I can take a job with an affirmative action
employer without having co-workers on the
job suspect that I got it because of race.
19. I can choose public accommodation without
fearing that people of my race cannot get in or
will be mistreated in the places I have chosen.
20. I can be sure that if I need legal or medical
help, my race will not work against me.
21. If my day, week, or year is going badly, I need
not ask of each negative episode or situation
whether it has racial overtones.
22. If a cop pulls me over, or if the IRS audits our
tax return, I can be sure it is not because of
my race.
23. If I get angry and ask to speak to the “person
in charge,” I can be fairly sure I will be talking
to a person of my race.
24. I did not need to teach out children about
systemic racism for their own daily physical
protection.
25. I can go shopping alone in department stores
near my house without being followed or
harassed by store detectives on the grounds
that I may be shoplifting or soliciting.
26. We were able to teach our children that the
police were their allies, and that they should
dial 911 if they had and emergency.
27. In my neighborhood, I can be sure that the
police will not harass me because of the color
of my skin.
28. In my neighborhood, any police officer who
might need to arrest people in my family is
likely to be a person of my race.
29. Criminality is not imputed to me as a genetic
component of racial character; I am not
assumed to belong to a group of people
predisposed to crime.
30. The word “criminal” in the dominant culture
does not conjure up the faces of people
whose skin color is like that of my father,
mother, brother, sister, husband, nieces, or
nephews.
31. I have never heard or read the suggestion
that ll the people of my color ought to be
locked up or killed. Even Islamic
fundamentalists do not call for the killing of all
people of my color, only certain “morally
corrupt” ones.
32. In World War II my grandparents, despite
having German ancestors two generations
ago, were not locked up by the U.S.
government in internment camps on the
suspicion or pretext that they might be
traitors.
33. Nearly all of the lawyers and judges who
study, write about, argue, debate, and
practice law in the U.S. are people of my
race.
34. Lawbreaking by the U.S. government with
regard to treaties with Indian people was not
taught to me as a criminal aspect of my racial
heritage.
35. Deceiving Indians is not described as a
genetic or inherited trait of Caucasians.
36. Refusing to honor Indian treaties today is not
shown to me as lawbreaking by white people.
37. The U.S. government has never made it a
crime for me to speak my native language or
observe the religious ceremonies of my
parents and grandparents.
38. The prison system is thoroughly controlled by
people of my race.
39. The constitution I am subject to was created
by people of my ethnic heritage to apply to
some people of my ethnic heritage and to not
apply to people of other races.
40. I am assumed to be entitled to whatever legal
defense I can afford, even if it allows me to be
acquitted of a crime I have committed.
41. If I am suspected of being guilty but am
acquitted, I will be seen as someone who got
through the cracks rather than as a person
who especially deserved not to get through
the cracks.
42. Those who have been able to afford the high
costs of legal training have been, for the most
part, people of my race.
43. Lawyers featured as experts by the media are
overwhelmingly people of my race.
44. Those who have been able to pay lawyers’
fees and legal costs have for the most part
been people of my race.
45. A successful tax evader in my ethnic group is
usually portrayed as a cheater or even a
victor, but not as an innate criminal or a
representative of a whole race of people who
drain society.
46. A deadbeat dad in my ethnic group is
portrayed in the media as financially but not
sexually irresponsible.
47. When I walk into the courthouses of my
country, I can expect respectful treatment
from the receptionists.
48. As a child, I heard jokes and sound tracks
that cast people of other races as habitually
dumb and coarse, or else sneaky, shifty, sly,
malicious, or underhanded, and left people of
my race protected from such typecasting.
49. The voiceovers of criminals, shifty individuals,
and villains in Disney films and in ads rarely
sound like people of my racial/ethnic group.
50. If I stand in line at the bank teller’s window, no
one looks strangely at me, as though they
have a problem with my being there.
51. If I suffer damages and decide to take a case
to court, the people I see in the legal system
will probably be people who were trained to
trust my kind and me.
52. I can stand behind another person at an ATM
machine without being feared as a potential
mugger.
53. If I am laughing with friends on a street at
night, it is not assumed that we are in a gang.
54. A realtor has never discriminated against me
to “protect property values.”
55. No one has ever suggested that I might have
dealt drugs in order to afford a certain car or
house.
56. The men of my race who took 400 billion
dollars in the 1994 U.S. S & L (savings and
loan) scandal are not branded as criminals or
seen as enemies of the U.S. people, even
though the money has never been returned.
57. When I think of prisons, I do not have to think
of people of my race as disproportionately
serving time in them, having longer than
average sentences, and being executed in
greater numbers.
58. I am allowed to believe, and encouraged to
believe, that people of my race are in general
law-abiding rather than law-breaking.
59. TV shows and films show people of my color
as the main defenders of law and order;
cleverest detectives, best lawyers and judges,
and wiliest outlaws.
60. Portrayals of white males on TV as criminals
and violent individuals do not incriminate me
as a Caucasian; these males, even the
outlaws, are usually presented as strong men
of a quintessentially American type.
61. Illegal acts by the U.S. government, in the
present and in the past, around the world, are
not attributed by whites to Caucasian
immorality and illegality.
62. Bad race relations in the United States are
not attributed by whites to criminal behavior,
despite a history of race-related breaking of
laws by whites over the entire span of Anglo-
European life on this continent.
Friday, January 30, 2009
It doesn't need to be fair, and that doesn't offend me
I have gotten into quite a few discussions with people recently about racial reconciliation needing to be "fair". As in, if they are going to listen to people vent their frustrations with how they've been discriminated against unfairly (etc...), then they should also be able to vent about how they've been the victims of injustice. If their injustices are not seen as "equal" to the injustices the other person has experienced, they become defensive and take things personally.
I truly and honestly wonder why I have never ever felt the need to have it be fair? I have had rude looks, comments, ect. made about my race from time to time. But to me, it's not a daily, weekly, or even monthly occurrence. I am well aware that the benefits (aka privileges) I receive because of my race far outweigh the injustices.
And when someone of another race tells me about the ways they've been treated unfairly because of their race, I don't get defensive. I may have even done some of the things they've complained about before. For instance, one of my Korean friends was telling me about how difficult it was for her growing to be made fun of by all the white children for her slanted eyes. When I was a child, I did this too. But instead of getting defensive and making up some excuse like, "oh, children don't know any better...", I resolved to make sure that I educate my children about the beauty of God's creativity in us all.
Finally, I am really and truly not writing this post to sound arrogant or like I'm better than anyone else. I am truly curious to find out why I don't get defensive or feel that things need to be fair and others do? I want to have an open and loving discussion about it if you're willing to...
I truly and honestly wonder why I have never ever felt the need to have it be fair? I have had rude looks, comments, ect. made about my race from time to time. But to me, it's not a daily, weekly, or even monthly occurrence. I am well aware that the benefits (aka privileges) I receive because of my race far outweigh the injustices.
And when someone of another race tells me about the ways they've been treated unfairly because of their race, I don't get defensive. I may have even done some of the things they've complained about before. For instance, one of my Korean friends was telling me about how difficult it was for her growing to be made fun of by all the white children for her slanted eyes. When I was a child, I did this too. But instead of getting defensive and making up some excuse like, "oh, children don't know any better...", I resolved to make sure that I educate my children about the beauty of God's creativity in us all.
Finally, I am really and truly not writing this post to sound arrogant or like I'm better than anyone else. I am truly curious to find out why I don't get defensive or feel that things need to be fair and others do? I want to have an open and loving discussion about it if you're willing to...
Sunday, January 25, 2009
From my parenting journal:
This morning at church I had an interesting conversation with a man that has started coming the past couple months. He's black and has two biracial sons that come with him. He commented on how light skinned one of my twins is compared to the other. He said, "L, you're a lucky one. You're gonna be able to pass if you want to." (He was referring to the fact that L will be able to pass as white if he chooses to in most circumstances.) He then said, "But black people always know their own." We went on to discuss our experiences living in the Midwest, being in interracial relationships. He asked if I had any negative comments from people. I responded that people usually don't say anything, we've had looks before and comments under their breath, but nothing blatant. I can recall a few times feeling very uncomfortable in wealthier parts of the city because of looks people would give us. And in my neighborhood, which is primarily African American, being chastised for having the babies in direct sunlight during the summer (even though my doctor wanted them to have limited sun exposure for Vitamin D). But truthfully I am thankful to say that I have not experienced much negativity at all from either sides.
Going back to his comment about L being able to "pass"... I discussed this with my husband on the way home. E said that he hopes that it's not even an issue, that L would not be treated any differently if he was seen as white, black, Hispanic, or biracial. I also told E that I can not ever recall a white person commenting to me about the babies being of a different or mixed race, but many black people have commented about it. Not in a negative or positive way. E and I both feel that it's always important to acknowledge someones racial identity b/c it is part of who they are... but obviously we do not treat them any differently because of it. I realize that if L can "pass" there are certain privileges he can utilize that my husband can not (currently). I wish white privilege did not exist. My hope is by the time my sons are old enough to know, it will not exist. Working towards that goal is difficult, though, and means we must be willing to discuss it honestly.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
The Promised Land
"To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardship." -W.E.B. DuBois
My father sent me that quote nearly 8 years ago. Today, homicide is the leading cause of death amongst African American males, 91% of whom are killed by fellow African Americans. 62% of all African American homes are run by single parents. 15% of young African American men are incarcerated. 23% are living below the poverty line and 58% are living just above or below the poverty line.
"But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land... He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land. And I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
On this eve of MLK Day and the Inauguration of the first black President
, not much has changed statistically for the black community. And yet so much has changed. What once was a distant glimmer of hope has now come to fruition. Is Obama the Savior? No. Will Obama change the statistics of crime and poverty for the community. Probably not drastically. But he does represent a continual climb up the mountain towards the Promised Land.
Every year since we've been married, E and I set aside MLK Day to honor the struggle that so many endured so that we, as an interracial couple, could marry and have a family without persecution. We are thankful. And we are excited to share this with our sons for the first time this year. Even though they will not understand or remember it, it is important to practice this family tradition every year together. We will be heading to the History Center. What will you be doing?
, not much has changed statistically for the black community. And yet so much has changed. What once was a distant glimmer of hope has now come to fruition. Is Obama the Savior? No. Will Obama change the statistics of crime and poverty for the community. Probably not drastically. But he does represent a continual climb up the mountain towards the Promised Land. Every year since we've been married, E and I set aside MLK Day to honor the struggle that so many endured so that we, as an interracial couple, could marry and have a family without persecution. We are thankful. And we are excited to share this with our sons for the first time this year. Even though they will not understand or remember it, it is important to practice this family tradition every year together. We will be heading to the History Center. What will you be doing?
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