March 14, 2025

Catawba River Flyover — Landsford Canal State Park, Chester County, South Carolina
Native Americans have been experiencing atrocity, cruelty and inequity since 1492. And People of Color have been subjected to it for as long as there have been white people.

Without recourse, protest, renunciation, repudiation. They just had to take it. For centuries.

This is beyond redemption, recompense, amends and compensation.

This is a horror we have to bear as victims and

Published by jimwdollar

I'm retired, and still finding my way--but now, I don't have to pretend that I know what I'm doing. I retired after 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, serving churches in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. I graduated from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Austin, Texas, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. My wife, Judy, and I have three daughters, five granddaughters, one great granddaughter, and a great grandson on the way, within about ten minutes from where we live--and are enjoying our retirement as much as we have ever enjoyed anything.

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