Guest columnist Matt EchoHawk-Hayashi and his wife Colleen come from the 49th and 50th states. Colleen is a Pawnee tribal member and Matt is 4th generation Okinawan/Japanese from Hawaii. They are part of a new church in Seattle called the Ohana Project.
I’ve been slow to catch on to the blog phenomenon. However, the candor and honesty that seems to be produced by sites such as this one is, for me, fascinating and hopeful. That’s why I began looking for discussion on the current state of race relations in America in the wake of wedge points like the Jena 6, Don Imus, Michael Vick, OJ Simpson and the exposure of American perspective on race two generations after the civil rights movement began. The issue for me is a personal one and I’m very interested in what the post-modern, socially conscious, spiritual-but-not-dogmatic, justice-minded folk of the blogger community thought.
I won’t try to report on the incidents such as the Jena 6 and OJ, anyone with cable probably feels overloaded with reporting already. What strikes me, and what I’d be interested in hearing feedback on is on the divide between how different members of this country perceive the issue. I’ve found that when the issue is race and justice, we often are not talking about the same thing at all.
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10-08-2007 |
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