The terrible events at the Capitol this past week should not come as a surprise, even as shocking as they were. This country has never owned up to the horrors of genocide of Native peoples or the sins of slavery and Jim Crow. It has been a terrific struggle from the very beginning to live up to the words in our founding documents. We have not always treated each other well, to put it mildly. Even before the American Revolution began, our own Green Mountain Boys were celebrated for doing awful things to York … (read more)
