Wednesday - A better day today.

I was relieved this morning when I the news was not full of more rioting and mayhem but rather forceful but non-violent protests against the institutional racism that is too much a part of this country's heritage. This is a problem that can't be wished away but needs to be worked at through education, cultural change and making expressions of such things as White Supremacy unacceptable.

When a US Senator from Kentucky, Mitch McConnell admits only to "residual racism in America," and remains blind to how it embedded in almost all American institutions, we have a problem. His statement borders on despicable, a denial of why Black Lives Matter is a plea from the heart to recognize that we as a nation have turned away from understanding that it is an American Problem of great magnitude. There is no rationalizing it and until everyone can admit to it, the solution will evade us.

I don't have an answer but in asking this question, perhaps I can start working toward one: why does race remain a dividing line in American life at the end of the second decade of the 21st Century?

Tonight a few Street Portraits. Most of these are candids, a couple are not. It's pretty easy to see which are not. The first one is an Afghani immigrant who cheerfully makes great food on the corner of Madison and E. 47 St. in Manhattan, the last one a Jamaican immigrant who runs the Jerk Chicken truck that serves us at E. 48th St. and Park Ave. Both hard working, both true Americans, as are all those sandwiched between them.

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