Posts occurring in January 2021
My Thoughts for Thursday: Events of Jan. 6
January 7, 2021
Dear DePauw Faculty, Staff and Students,
Yesterday, before the assault on our nation’s capital, I heard Reverend Raphael Warnock, the newly elected and first African American senator from Georgia, reflect that only in America could the son of a woman who picked cotton become a U.S. senator. Essentially, his message conveyed the sentiment that democracy works, despite its imperfections and the fact as a country we are still working to live up to our true ideals.