![]() ![]() Conley was charged with breach of the peace and was fined $500. David Lee Johnson, his partner and her daughters. Just three months after Martin Luther King’s assassination, a Glover man, Larry Conley, fired shots into the living room of The Rev. In 1968, when I was 23, I followed the Irasburg incident. The hugely successful film is often credited with the genesis of the Ku Klux Klan. Griffith’s silent film Birth of a Nation played in theaters across the country, including Morrisville’s Bijou Theater. ![]() And when the sheets came off, we all were their customers, employees, and friends … so silly.” In 1916, D.W. Morrisville didn’t have any black people or Jews, so they rode around the homes of Quebecois, Italian, and Irish – most of us, in fact. “It was so silly, really,” she would chuckle, “those grown men riding around town dressed in sheets. My French-Canadian grandmother, Elise Couture – the moral beacon in our family for 101 years – recalled for us the Klan’s activities in her hometown of Morrisville. But as we congratulate ourselves on our professed belief in racial equality and our historical abolitionist efforts, honesty calls us to remember the dark underbelly of racism and economic privilege that persists even today in Vermont. In Vermont, we like to imagine ourselves a welcoming community, and for much of our history we have been and are. ![]() 116 between Lantman’s Market and NRG Systems in peaceful protest both of the murder of George Floyd and the deep and residual culture of racism in America. Last week, some 200 Hinesburg young people, families, and other citizens walked Rte. Watching the murder of George Floyd has called on me to explore my own white privilege and intersectionality perspective. Like many Vermonters, I’ve been watching with pain and empathy the protests unfolding in countless cities and towns across the country. ![]()
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