The heat dome remains. It is wearing me out, but not quite as bad as yesterday. I came home, turned on the air conditioner and crashed for an hour. This did let me finally remove my seat-soaked shirt.
I have been working on the blog tonight. No calls. One trip to the convenience store.
Now, enough is enough. The front room has been stultifying.
Reading Indianapolis Monthly's The Feed,, I learned some Indiana history.
Garfield Park riot of 1919 (Wikipedia)
Amidst racial tensions during the summer of 1919, a group of white youths in Indianapolis thought that they were being followed by groups of African-Americans. On July 14, 1919, hundreds of white boys 16 to 19 years old converged on Garfield Park. There they used bricks and clubs to beat any black people they came across. When a group of African-Americans took shelter in the house of Nathan Weather, a local black man, the white mob followed them and surrounded the house. Weather fired into the crowd in hopes of dispersing the mob. A seven-year-old onlooker, Charlotte Pieper, received a flesh wound from stray buckshot. Another youth, Paul Karbwitz, 18, was also hit. Police were eventually able to disperse the mob and quell the riot.
That led me to Category:Riots and civil disorder in Indiana (Wikipedia)
When Indiana Banned the German Language in 1919 (The Indiana History Blog). Before Americans feared Spanish, they feared German-speakers. I believe Kurt Vonnegut wrote about this in his Palm Sunday collection of non-fiction. Vonnegut being of German descent.
We never get away from our history; we just ignore it to our detriment.
Issue 15 - The Drift is out.
The time to talk to your Indiana state legislators is now (ACLU of Indiana)
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