“What can we do? What is the action item?” A friend posed these questions in response to Governor LePage’s recent racist statements. We, at Maine Initiatives, believe that we all have a responsibility to confront racism (in leaders, in language, in actions, in systems, in structures) if we reject the hostile environment it creates for people […]

If we don’t explicitly reject LePage’s racist assertions, we are complicit. Not just in the implicit violence and culture of fear that these words visit upon people of color in our communities. But in our own diminishment. Racism and hate don’t just hurt people of color. They dehumanize us all. There is plenty of room […]

Have you ever thought about who would you have been if you had been born in a different time? Would you have been the same you: same values, same character, same moral judgments? Or would you have been someone different? And if you were different, would you have been someone unrecognizable, even unadmirable, to your […]