Finding Truth In Racist Times...
The article that follows is a lengthy one. It is an interview with the president of the SPLC and it is spot on in its understanding of which path we need to travel to find truth. The article is truncated but a link is provided to the full story. Margaret Huang is president of the Southern Poverty Law Center. (KK Ottesen/For The Washington Post) Southern Poverty Law Center President: ‘We have to get back to a place where we all can agree on how to find truth’ Margaret Huang, 51, is a human rights and racial justice advocate and president and chief executive of the Southern Poverty Law Center. She served previously as executive director of Amnesty International USA. The Southern Poverty Law Center has been focusing on hate for three decades. How would you describe the moment we’re in — and how we got here? So we actually have seen cycles of hate. Typically, the number of hate groups grow during Democratic administrations. And then they typically are quieter during Repu...