Roar of the Crowd: September 2024

Party SwitchI read the interview with Dallas mayor Eric Johnson [TM Talks, July 2024], and oh, Mayor Johnson, white liberals do not have a problem with a “strong-willed, competent, self-assured, highly educated Black man.” One was twice elected president of the United States. Johnson’s perception problems are of his own making, and his switch to the Republican Party has, in my opinion, put him in a camp with more criminals, not a better class of them.Nancy Parham, Plano The Band Plays OnWhat a beautiful oral history of the Livestrong bracelet that Emily McCullar recollected for us in “Making the Band” [July 2024]. In 2008 our 23-year-old son was diagnosed with an incurable form of cancer, and we all wore our yellow silicone in solidarity, feeling somehow…

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