Category: paul

I Don’t Hate the South: I Just Want a Better South

During my undergraduate career, even though I was not what you would call an exemplary student, I sat amazed at professors, specifically English professors, who would rattle off titles, authors, and quotes at will, linking them together like a tapestry above my head. I never thought I would be able to do that, but as the years have progressed and I have spent, at … Read More I Don’t Hate the South: I Just Want a Better South

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What is Our Obligation to Others?

No matter what, I always encounter ideas and behaviors that I can’t, for the life of me, wrap my head around. During college, chemistry was the discipline I just couldn’t understand, and my inability to grasp it led me to change my major, moving me towards education, a path I never thought I’d take. It’s one thing to have trouble understanding something like chemistry, … Read More What is Our Obligation to Others?

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Even Its Children Know . . .

Over the past few weeks, we have seen protests throughout the nation and across the world speaking out out against police brutality and systemic racism and calling upon those in power and those not in power to listen and know that Black lives matter. One of these protests occurred in our county, a mostly Wonder Bread white county. At the protest, about 200 or … Read More Even Its Children Know . . .