MIDWEEK MUSINGS: POLITICAL ANIMALS

I skedaddled out of town after the last Political Animals get-together at the newly remodeled main library and my mind jumped to Fall in the Midwest...

Let me digress and share with you what was an interesting dialogue from two-time Pulitzer award-winning journalist, John Archibald. Mr. Archibald has been commenting on Alabama politics in his column since 2018 and on southern politics since 1973.

He has many daily readers, and they all don't love him. He spoke of changes, of how hate has grown in this country, reflected in some of his readers' comments. Archibald's reactions are respectful. He has not only attended these same readers' funerals but has been asked by families to write eulogies for those very same souls. Imagine that!

Also, there was mention of having to dirty our hands to deflate the hate dialogue of Christian Nationalism and improve the political climate with change, and not change that worsens others' daily lives. Martin Luther King even spoke of the church becoming sick. 

So what has happened to literacy?

People aren't reading books or newspapers. Where does one find the truth? 

Mr Archibald isn't optimistic and added we need community conversations and real news, not just social media quips.

 How can one argue with that?