If you are like me, you are probably finding your news feed is focused on what is happening with the protests and riots and the possible defunding of police departments. And although I’d prefer to just address the normal subjects concerning recycling, I would also like to talk a little about current events. And I hope you don’t mind.
In a recent Resource Recycling newsletter article, one of its editors wrote his opinion regarding current race relations in America. While it is the policy of the Resource Recycling company to not endorse opinion pieces, I think you will find truth and relevance in everything this editor wrote.
Its author, Dan Leif, is a white middle-class male, who was brought up in a white middle-class suburb in New England. He believed he was educated early on about the importance of the civil rights movement and was moved by the powerful words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
