I’ve joined the occasional march on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and partaken in vigils protesting state killing for much of my adult life, but I’ve only recently joined nonviolent demonstrations in which people have been arrested. I haven’t figured out how to talk about it yet, but recent events compel me to try to make some distinctions that might be lost on a number of folks my age and older who are inclined to believe elected officials and aspirers to public office who speak of “Antifa scum” or “social justice” mobs. I took the above photo outside the Tennessee State Capitol on the tenth of August to chronicle the fact of Tennessee Representative G.A. Hardaway responding kindly and calmly to a member of our company.
Perfect love casts out fear, but the voices of fear are very loud.