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Join us as we honor victims of gun violence on National Gun Violence Awareness Day and Wear Orange Weekend.

Five Spread Your Wings butterfly murals created by community partners will be on display June 5 at the following locations: AADM Teen Social Justice Club - Justice Center Moms Demand Action - ACC Library Project Safe - Cine Theater Town and Gown Players - Arcadia Garden Treehouse Kid and Craft - Treehouse Kid and Craft store Thank you to everyone who submitted a portrait to Flagpole’s annual pet issue! Pictured above is Brimley, a 13-year-old chihuazer. Make sure to check out the full gallery at flagpole.com, and add photos of your own to the comments section on Facebook to keep the fun going.

This Modern World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 NEWS: City Dope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

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Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Street Scribe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

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By Blake Aued, Chris Dowd and Jessica Luton news@flagpole.com The Athens-Clarke County Commission failed, the agreement was approved unanivoted last week to move last call at local mously as originally written. bars back to 2 a.m., nearly 10 months after Commissioners also discussed two major the commission moved last call up to 11:30 developments that will be voted on June 1. p.m. in an effort to curb late-night crowds One is a massive residential development downtown amidst a sharp spike in COVIDoff rural Old Elberton Road that would 19 infections. include more than 500 houses and 200 A couple of commissioners had floated multi-family units on 233 acres. Echoing the idea of keeping the earlier last call to planning commissioners who unanimously ease the burden on police. But ACCPD suprecommended denial of a rezoning and ported the return to a later last call. “They waiver requests, county commissioners said feel like it will be a benefit to them moving the project has a good design but is in the back the time because you don’t get the wrong place. The area in the northeastern mixture of the college crowd downtown at part of the county is set aside as rural, the same time as the evening dinner crowd,” located near several industries and lacks said County Attorney Judd Drake. infrastructure like transit service or sewer After debating whether any agreement lines. with bar owners to roll back last call should “It’s like putting a farm in the middle include protections for service industry of downtown,” Commissioner Patrick workers’ labor rights, commissioners Davenport said. “It’s not the right project reached a consensus for this area.” to send those issues Another project is This falls well short of a tower through the commiton Mitchell my expectation here. Street near downtown tee process so that bar employees can and the UGA campus get back to work. But some commissionthat the commission is seeing for the third ers expressed disappointment that bar time. Controversially approved in 2017 as owners won’t be doing more to promote a retirement community, the project is now vaccination. back as student-oriented housing.

The ordinance passed Tuesday does The developer, Chicago- and Austinrequire the bar owners who sued ACC last based Core Spaces, is asking for a waiver on year over the earlier last call to cooperate density because it exceeds the limit of 200 with the county health department on bedrooms per acre in the downtown zone, promoting a mass vaccination event. But with 390 bedrooms on 1.7 acres. In addiCommissioner Russell Edwards said they tion, the developer is planning to provide should be required to host vaccination 15 “affordable” units by putting two beds in events for their customers and staff. “Now each bedroom. That could benefit students, I’m reading this settlement, and it’s just officials pointed out, but it won’t help famimaking a social media post,” he said. “This lies seeking affordable rental housing. falls well short of my expectation here.”

Commissioner Allison Wright, the Edwards proposed tabling the discussion commissioner for the property, said she for 30 days, which Commissioner Melissa supports it because it will take students out Link also supported. After that motion of neighborhoods. However, Commissioner

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At a work session on Apr. 15, Williams asked commissioners if they wanted him to develop a plan to implement Project RESET in Athens. With a few shrugs or head nods, Williams would have been free to research Project RESET further and craft a plan for its implementation to be voted on at a later date.

Two commissioners—Allison Wright and Mike Hamby—chose to block Williams from doing any further research. Wright said that she didn’t know enough about the program to decide. Girtz clarified that no money was attached to the proposal yet and that Williams was simply asking whether there was enough interest for him to do further research. Williams then dropped the issue.

The work session on Project RESET requested by Wright was held on May 11.

Some commissioners continued to refuse to give their consent for Williams to research the program even after they were educated on it. “This was a wonderful presentation today,” Commissioner Ovita Thornton said. “But maybe someone else has a great presentation and are not given that opportunity. I’m not going to support anything where we do not give the community input, no matter how good the program is.”

(Public input would have been taken before The ACC Commission also voted unanthe vote.) imously on May 18 to begin the process of Girtz proposed that staff move forward developing an eviction prevention program with developing the project concept for called Project RESET. This vote—which was Project RESET and asked, again, if the comboth completely unnecessary and surprismission would give its consent. Most comingly contentious—threw into sharp relief missioners nodded their heads in approval. the divisions spreading through Athens’ But Hamby spoke up in opposition, saying, legislative body.

“If you don’t know the budget of all of this, In Athens, a city with a large tenant then how are you going to design anypopulation, a flood of evictions is looming thing?” Finally, Girtz muted Hamby, who as the CDC’s eviction then unmuted himmoratorium is set to self and continued Politics is being put before speaking out of turn expire on June 30.

Project RESET is a before being muted a policy that is for the program designed to second time. help low-income ten- betterment of our community.

Last Tuesday, ants avoid eviction Thornton made a through a negotiated settlement with their last-minute attempt to delay Project RESET landlords. It provides a portion of the rent yet again, perhaps for months, but her owed under the condition that the tenant substitute motion was denied in a 4-6 vote is allowed to stay in their home with all late with Hamby, Wright and Patrick Davenport fees forgiven. voting with Thornton. Immediately after, a The program was first developed in vote was held to allow staff to research the Gwinnett County, where it helped 3,791 program, which passed unanimously. people avoid eviction at a cost of $6 mil“Politics is being put before policy that lion from the federal CARES Act. Due to is for the betterment of our community,” the program’s immense success, Gwinnett Denson said. “We’re in a place right now is currently in the process of launching where there’s more obstruction happening, Project RESET 2.0 using American Rescue and more politicking happening. It’s coming Plan funding. The new and improved proat the cost of helping our community.” gram will provide both rental and utility Thornton agreed with Denson that poliassistance for those who meet certain tics is the reason why the Project Reset vote requirements, such as earning under 80% of took place last Tuesday. “But the question Gwinnett’s median income. is, who is playing the politics?” she said.

Commissioner Tim Denson first heard Thornton then reiterated her concern, about Project RESET in December as he expressed at both the May 11 and May 18 was listening to a podcast by Gwinnett meetings, that lack of community input was Commissioner Marlene Fosque. Realizing the reason she objected to the vote. that a wave of evictions might hit Athens Denson and Parker have already been after the CDC’s moratorium expires, Denson reaching out to their constituents, going worked quickly to set up a virtual meeting beyond public comment at commission among Fosque, ACC Magistrate Judge Ben meetings. “I spoke with many of my conMakin and local housing nonprofits. Mayor stituents about the concept in the months Kelly Girtz also attended the meeting, since its inception and have referenced it which was held in January, along with comin my bimonthly newsletter as far back as missioner Carol Myers and Mariah Parker.

March,” Parker said. “The question isn’t Commissioners are not allowed to introwhether we had time to get input, it’s why duce legislation unilaterally, so procedural the commissioners who stalled the project hurdles delayed Project RESET through didn’t take advantage of that time.”

March. By that time, ACC staff, including So, what’s really going on here? Parker Manager Blaine Williams, were ready to has an idea: “My perception is that commisexplore the possibility of starting such a sioners who have long held power, on this program. or other bodies, feel threatened by the proMariah Parker said she’d rather deny it and force the developer to go back to the drawing board and submit a better plan.

“We are full up on student housing downtown,” Link said. “We need to spread that development around a little bit and diversify our housing stock downtown.”

In addition, the commission heard a pitch from Indiana-based developer Trinitas to use revenue from a newly created tax allocation district alongside Lexington Road to build below-market workforce housing at a previously approved apartment development. With TAD assistance totaling $2.9 million, Trinitas would build 120 Class A one- and two-bedroom units renting for about $200 below market rate to people making between 60%–120% of the area median income of $65,900.The Lexington Road TAD Committee is opposed to the subsidy because, members said, it would only benefit a few people, and the money would be better spent on corridor improvements or job training. But approval was recommended by Manager Blaine Williams and the ACC Economic Development Department. [Blake Aued]

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active, expedient, innovative and thorough work of the younger, newer, more left-leaning commissioners,” such as herself, Denson and Jesse Houle, whose election last year tilted the commission leftward. [Chris Dowd]

Commissioners Tweak 2022 Budget As ACC commissioners finalize the county’s fiscal 2022 budget, Black Athens residents came to City Hall during an input session last week to ask for more programs for young people in the wake of a wave of gun violence in the community.

In early May, Athens experienced five shootings in one week. A 20-year-old Athens man named Ke’Travian Tyvon Cole, a hip-hop artist who performed under the name EBE Montana, was shot and killed on Highway 316 in what the Barrow County sheriff described as a possibly gang-related drive-by. Last week, Ashawn Adams, 16, of Athens, and Tyler Parten, 24, of Flowery Branch, shot and killed each other during a meeting in Athens’ Stonehenge neighborhood to complete a Facebook transaction involving a dirt bike, according to AthensClarke County police.

Ke’Travian Cole’s father, Hamilton Cole, spoke to commissioners about the disconnect between Athens’ “beautiful” community centers and the community itself.

“They have no outlets,” Cole said of young people today. “Ten, 20 years ago, maybe they could go shoot ball, get on the youth soccer team, something of that nature.

Now, it’s kind of pushed back. They’re not able to get into those programs because those programs are not available at community centers. That leaves them to go back to, quote-unquote, the block.”

Mayor Kelly Girtz’s proposed budget includes funding to continue Leisure Services’ recently revived summer youth program Grand Slam. Commissioner Mariah Parker has proposed a community garden program that would cost $100,000 to start and $50,000 a year to operate. And commissioners have raised several issues related to law enforcement during two budget hearings.

At a May 21 meeting, District Attorney Deborah Gonzalez lobbied for $173,000

to hire a grant writer and an assistant DA • $50,000 for a “walk of recognition” in the to oversee a diversion program that keeps former Linnentown neighborhood, which first-time offenders out of jail, as well as was destroyed in the 1960s to make way to create a public data porthole. Some for the University of Georgia’s Baxter commissioners are also interested in a Street dorms. request from the public defender’s office for • $6,000 to start the process of creating a $28,000 to give staff raises. “quiet zone” in Boulevard where trains Because the commission is loath to raise don’t have to blow their horns, which taxes during tough economic times, any could wind up costing $200,000. additions to the budget will require cuts.

A final vote on the budget, which curSeveral commissioners questioned Girtz’s rently totals $271 million, is scheduled for $184,000 proposal for a police cadet trainJune 15. [BA] ing program that he has argued would provide a path to the profession for local youth and improve diversity on the force.

Clarke County saw another decline in Commissioner Mariah Parker is pushing COVID-19 cases last week and a steady for ACC to sell an armored vehicle called a vaccination rate for Clarke residents despite Bearcat that the county received through many UGA students going home. a Department of Defense program that The seven-day running average declined donates surplus military gear to local law for another consecutive week to 4.6 as of enforcement agencies. The Bearcat is worth May 21. That’s down $240,000 and costs from 5.4 on May “tens of thousands” Even if we don’t reach herd 14 and marks the to insure and mainseventh week of tain, according immunity on a national consistent decline to Parker. But it’s in new weekly cases. unclear whether ACC level, we can reach it on a Further, cases per can even sell the community level and then work 100,000 in the last vehicle, given that from there. two weeks, the DoD regulations metric that’s used require many items to determine whether the Athens-Clarke to be returned if unused, or whether anyCounty mask mandate remains active, one would even want to buy it, since other declined again to 53. The mask mandate law enforcement agencies can also get such equipment from the federal government for is only in effect if cases exceed 100 per 100,000 residents. free.

Clarke County added 36 new positive Other requests at least some commiscases to the tally last week, with 12,869 sioners are interested in funding include: • $369,000 for Advantage Behavioral Health confirmed cases and an additional 2,238 positive antigen cases to date. Only 4.4% of Systems to pair medics and counselors to all hospitalizations were Covid-19-related respond to mental health crises, modeled for Region E, with 500 total hospitalizaafter the CAHOOTS program in Eugene, tions and just two added last week.

OR. That’s in addition to the four mental While Clarke County had no deaths in health co-responder teams consisting of the two weeks prior, last week two residents a police officer and mental health prodied of COVID-19, and one additional death fessional that Girtz has included in his was listed as probable, for a total of 139 budget. deaths and eight probable deaths among • an additional $220,000 for the Athens Clarke County residents to date.

Area Homeless Shelter, a nonprofit that’s Significant progress was made in vaccipartially funded by the ACC government.

• $154,000 to hire two new groundskeepers. nating Clarke County residents last week, with 1,977 doses doled out. There were 826 • $73,000 for poll workers. fewer doses administered to Athens resi• $78,000 for a digital coordinator in the dents this week, but now that many UGA Public Information Office.

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students have left town after the spring semester, the vaccination rate appears to be relatively stable. To date, 43,781 Clarke County residents, or 35%, have received at least one dose of a vaccine, and 37,696 residents, or 30%, are fully vaccinated.

For the week of May 10-16, UGA administered 1,008 doses out of 22,475 on hand at the beginning of the week. With only 4% administered, UGA’s stockpile of vaccine doses is greatly outpacing demand. To date, UGA has fully vaccinated 11,798 people, but no data has been available on just how many of those individuals may be included as Clarke County residents.

In early May, Georgia opened up vaccinations for children 12 and older following the Food and Drug Administration’s emergency use authorization of the Pfizer vaccine. In those 10 days, 488 doses were administered to children ages 12-15 in Clarke County, according to data Flagpole obtained via an open records request. While that rate is high compared to other nearby counties, the data only show how many doses were administered here and not whether those doses were to children residing in Clarke County.

For many parents, the decision to have their children vaccinated isn’t easy, especially since the COVID-19 spread is the lowest it’s been in a year. Children generally only have mild symptoms if they are infected, but in rare cases, children have had severe complications or died. Given that children can still get sick and spread the disease with or without symptoms, public health experts are quick to stress the importance of getting younger adults and children vaccinated to fully bring this pandemic to an end.

“The way we get those people vaccinated is because we require it for entry to a workplace or to school or whatever it may be,” public health expert Amber Schmidtke told Flagpole. “Short of that, I think it’s still possible to get to something like herd immunity, but it’s going to require that we also vaccinate children.

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and super-rural) by zip code.” That table can be found at cms.gov. It clearly shows all Athens-Clarke County zip codes designated urban, including 30683, where Cooper and his family live. Unfortunately, National EMS continues to create smokescreens to conceal dangerously long response times.

Transparency in public safety operations is critical moving forward.

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I’m writing in response to Chris Dowd’s Feb. 24 article in Flagpole regarding National EMS misrepresenting ambulance response times at the July 9, 2019 AthensClarke County work session. The article centered around multiple delayed ambulance responses to John Cooper’s critically ill child. This deception is part of a pattern and is consistent with the findings of a recent Flagpole investigation that concluded, “National EMS, the private ambulance service serving Athens, made false statements “Cancel culture is cancel culture no to the Athens-Clarke County Mayor and matter how you look at it. Unfortunately, Commission, police and fire departments, I think there are those that are trying to and an oversight committee regarding an silence others in the party.” emergency call from Barrow Elementary.”

— Sen. Joni Ernest The truth matters. Transparency matIn this particular case, the GOP is also ters. And in time-sensitive, life-threatening choosing to cancel the undeniable truth— emergencies, seconds matter. Even though that Trump is a loser who lost the 2020 response time starts the moment National EMS receives the call, they choose to deceive election fair and square. As a spinoff, the the public by fabricating response time from Republican party is also canceling any elected GOP official, like the respected Rep. when their ambulance got en route to the Liz Chaney of Wyoming, who will not recite call. This could conceal several minutes of verbatim the “the big lie” and say a fair elecresponse time from public view. This is both tion was rigged. a flagrant violation of Cheney is a traditheir contract (Service This is both a flagrant tional conservative Level Agreement Republican. But on a Article III, 3.2b) and of violation of their cowardly voice vote, patient care. contract and of patient care. designed to be anonSo, how good are ymous and eliminate National EMS’ response any negative election consequences for times? They are so good that you can’t those “canceling” her, Cheney was removed see them. They are concealed from public from the third-most powerful position in view. They are so good that they have to be the House GOP. Her offense? Daring to manipulated and misrepresented to elected speak the truth about the 2020 election and officials and the general public. They are so Donald Trump’s obvious role in the ensuing good that National EMS spent considerable Jan. 6 violent insurrection. time and effort trying to convince us that Cheney’s views on virtually every subresponse times don’t matter. Laughable, stantive topic are clearly and consistently really. Tragic if it’s your child or loved one. right of center, as were her father’s. Her Cooper’s house is 2.8 miles from the replacement, on the other hand, Rep. Elise ambulance station at Gaines School Road.

Stefanik, is a political moderate with a That should make for a rapid response, low conservative rating by the American unless that ambulance is having to come Conservative Union of only 44%, versus from further away, perhaps even another 78% for Cheney. Minority Leader Kevin county. This scenario is made much more McCarthy scores an 85%. The Heritage likely by the business model used by Action group figures are very much the National EMS that is the antithesis of pubsame, showing Cheney much more conserlic safety. National EMS is owned by an out vative and in line with McCarthy. of state, private equity firm. They routinely Clearly, Stefanik is just an unprincipled and systematically use taxpayer-subsidized opportunist who saw a path to advance 911 ambulances to run non-emergency herself by repeating Trump’s big lie and gettransports that don’t have anything to ting his support. Yet, McCarthy stated that do with 911, or public safety. It’s a fatally Cheney must be removed for the good of flawed business model, and they seem to the party. He stated he is “concerned about take cover in being a private company that [Cheney’s] ability to carry out the job… to can do what it wants. carry out the message.” And it’s crystal clear Athens-Clarke County (the smallest what “the message” is, to defend Trump no county in the state) is in fact overwhelmmatter the truth. ingly urban. National EMS met the Jack Bernard response time standard to Cooper’s house Peachtree City 0% of the time from the perspective of the patient and only 20% of the time from the perspective of the contract. The response time standard for urban areas is to respond “Let’s be honest with the American within 9 minutes, 90% of the time. people—it was not an insurrection, and we The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid cannot call it that and be truthful.”

Services (CMS) establish urban and rural —Rep. Andrew Clyde, 9th District. designations for ambulance services based “Who are you going to believe, me or on zip code. They did this “in response your lying eyes?” —Chico Marx. to several requests from the ambulance Carl Schmidt community for a national breakout of the Athens geographic area definitions (rural, urban

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Republicans Deny Reality DOUGLASS, PARKS AND KING TELL A TRUER TALE AT THE CAPITOL

By Ed Tant news@flagpole.com U.S. Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia recently said that television footage “of those who entered the Capitol and walked through Statuary Hall” showed an orderly group that “looked like a normal tourist visit.” In reality, the Jan. 6 mob action by disgruntled Donald Trump supporters bent on overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election was an attack on both the symbols and the substance of this nation.

No “normal tourist visit” to the Capitol includes attacks on police, ransacking of congressional offices, theft and vandalism.

In the aftermath of the Capitol Hill insurrection, congressional Republicans are trying to deny, dismiss or downgrade the seriousness of the deadly riot that metastasized from the “Big Lie” that Trump won the election and the presidency was stolen from him.

has become such a cult of craziness that the current GOP seems to yearn for “The Apotheosis of Donald J. Trump.” If they could talk, many of the statues in and near the Capitol would have much to say about the trumpery and treachery of this nation’s current political climate.

When we toured the Capitol in 2013, statues of civil rights leaders Frederick Douglass and Rosa Parks had just been unveiled for the public. Douglass was the former slave and 19th century Republican who dedicated his life to equality and emancipation for black people and women. His statue in the Capitol should remind today’s tourists and politicians of the words of warning that Douglass gave to his fellow Americans of every race and political party: “The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful and virtuous.”

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After Clyde claimed the Jan. 6 insurgents were peaceful, photos surfaced of him helping to barricade a Capitol door against the “tourists.”

Such continuing mendacity and misinformation is more than just a sign that millions of Americans and their political leaders are sore losers about the 2020 election. Even more dangerous is the Republican Party’s growing fealty to the most benighted, reactionary and authoritarian elements in U.S. politics today, along with the GOP’s infection of the body politic with fear, meanness and denial of reality. Today’s Republican Party loyalists to former President Trump seem to be hoping for a political climate described in George Orwell’s 1984 when they minimize the seriousness of the Jan. 6 insurrection: “And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.”

Back in 2013 my wife, Joy, and I took a train trip to Washington, where we visited the Capitol as part of what actually was “a normal tourist visit” to the ornate and historic old edifice. As we walked into the Capitol rotunda, we gazed high overhead at the mythic fresco painted on the ceiling in 1865 by Italian immigrant Constantino Brumidi as a tribute to America’s first president, “The Apotheosis of George Washington.” Today’s Republican Party

Parks was a Black woman who challenged white supremacy in the Jim Crow South.

She is called “the mother of the movement” for her act of defiance against segregation in Alabama, where she took a stand by sitting down in the “whites only” section of a city bus in 1955. In these times of angry and unhinged political chicanery, her words still ring true: “There is just so much hurt, disappointment and oppression one can take… The line between reason and madness grows thinner.”

In 1986, more than 25 years before the Capitol’s statues of Douglass and Parks were dedicated, a sculpture of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was placed in the building. In 2011 the Martin Luther King Memorial was dedicated on the National Mall not far from Capitol Hill. Joy and I saw both likenesses of Dr. King. Both are strong tributes in stone to a man whose words should be taken to heart by politicians and taken to the streets by citizens: “I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.”

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Labor of Love THE LAST NEW DEALER HELPS YOU UNDERSTAND WHY FDR STILL MATTERS

By Pete McCommons pete@flagpole.com Millard Grimes has turned out to be a prophet. He set out to write a book in hopes that he could influence the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, but it took him so long to get the book out that the primary was just about over by the time he achieved publication.

Even though he once was a Republican, Millard, who grew up in the Georgia cities of Lagrange and Columbus during the economic depression of the 1930s, has always been an ardent admirer of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his administration’s use of the national government to solve human and economic problems. Millard has read and thought a lot about Roosevelt’s New Deal, and he also lived through it, seeing all around him how government programs provided a much-needed helping hand to families like his and the businesses they depended on.

Millard earned a degree in journalism from the Grady College and after graduation went back to the Columbus newspaper where he had started out as a summer copy boy. He worked his way up the editorial ranks and eventually, with the help of financial backers, bought the AuburnOpelika News across the river in Alabama, built it up and eventually sold it during the newspaper boom times.

That gave him the capital to begin buying and selling Georgia newspapers (including my interest in the Athens Observer), but it wasn’t just business. Millard loved newspapers. Even as an owner/publisher, he always wrote an editorial column, and he just couldn’t keep his hands out of the process: He was bad to tweak headlines while the presses waited for the edition.

Many of Millard’s columns were—in spite of his fat-cat, mogul status—paeans to the efficacy of government to make things better for Americans. In the world of newspaper publishers, Millard was, like his idol FDR, a traitor to his class. He was (gasp) a liberal—a New Deal liberal.

Millard is such a liberal that he extolls the movie It’s a Wonderful Life, which everybody else sees as a Christmas story, as a New Deal parable—the little savings and loan trying to help the local folks, and the big banker trying to shut it down and foreclose on everybody. So Millard set out to write a novel (never mind that he had never written a word of fiction) inserting the New Deal into the primaries.

At the time, he was 87 years old. He was not what you would call computer literate, so he started typing on his typewriter and eventually found a transcriber who retyped his copy into a computer. And by this pro-

cess, Millard wrote The Last New Dealer and eventually published it himself as a 557page hardback book, though by the time he revised it and kept going over it the way he used to adjust newspaper headlines, the 2020 primary was just about history.

But here’s the scoop: When Millard started writing, the likelihood of a New Deal-type candidate was nil. The primaries turned out to be Bernie versus the moderates. FDR didn’t even make it into the debates. Then—you remember what happened—congressman James Clyburn

of South Carolina gave the word that Biden was the man, and Joe took that primary and then the Southern primaries and then the general election, regardless of what you may have heard otherwise.

Once he was elected, Joe Biden began to direct the government in a direction that made people start comparing him to, yes, Franklin D. Roosevelt. So if you want to understand what all the fuss is about when people compare Biden to Roosevelt, now’s the time to pick up The Last New Dealer.

Millard explains it all to you through the long-winded words of his protagonist, Thomas Alexander Franklin, a newspaperman who has cashed in all his holdings and is running for president in the 1992 Democratic presidential primaries. Millard inserts his doppelganger into the race against the real candidates: Paul Tsongas, Bill Clinton, Jerry Brown, et. al. He develops a nice set of supporting characters helping out in Franklin’s campaign, and by the time it gets to Georgia, Millard has the likes of Gwen O’Looney, Michael Stipe, Lewis Grizzard and other real notables on hand to supply local color.

Get yourself a copy. The newspaper business not being what it used to be, Millard would appreciate the purchase. f

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PETS AND HUMAN WELLNESS ARE INTEGRALLY LINKED

AMERICANS ARE GETTING MORE PETS—EXCEPT HORSES

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ow many new pets did you have the pleasure of meeting via Zoom this year? For many of us—and let’s be honest, often to our delight—video chat meetings were often interrupted with the sound of dogs barking, kids screeching or cats rambunctiously making their presence known to an audience.

As we move toward a more normal way of life, post-pandemic, recent research, alongside local ACC animal shelter adoption and owner surrender data, suggests that pets have been an integral part of human health and wellbeing in the last year.

According to Kristall Barber, director of

adults. According to the study, “seniors with pets are 36% less likely to report loneliness than non-pet owners, experience reduced stress, have fewer doctor visits, have reduced blood pressure and risk for heart disease, and develop a sense of purpose that comes with helping a homeless cat.”

The study was led by Sherry Sanderson, an associate professor at the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine.

“Much suffering among older people living alone is the result of boredom, and feelings of helplessness and loneliness,” Sanderson says. “Animal companionship is a known antidote to loneliness.”

Estimated number of pet dogs in the United States : 76,811,305 (American Veterinary Medicine Association). Or 89.7 million (American Pet Products Association). Or another big number; estimates vary widely.

Number of pet cats in the U.S. : 58,385,725 (AVMA) or 94.2 million (APPA) Estimated number of feral cats in the United States : 32 million (National Feline Research Council). Other estimates range as high as 160 million.

Estimated number of pet dogs in Clarke County, extrapolated from national figures : 30,672 Estimated number of pet cats : 22,715

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Estimated number of feral cats : 12,833 Average lifespan of an indoor cat : 16.8 years (Catster.com) Average lifespan of an outdoor cat : 5.6 years Estimated number of birds killed annually by free-ranging cats in the U.S. : 2.4 billion, give or take (Nature) Estimated number of small mammals killed by free-ranging cats : 12.4 billion Number of pet horses in 2018 : 893,152 (AVMA) Number of pet horses in 2012 : 1,780,000

UGA professor Sherry Sanderson (left) with Pip and owner Deborah Powell.

the Athens-Clarke County Animal Services Department, rates for adoptions in the last few years have remained steady and didn’t waver much in comparison to adoption rates for 2018 and 2019. In 2020, there were 258 dogs and 165 cats adopted; 275 dogs and 183 cats adopted in 2019; and 300 dogs and 183 cats adopted in 2018. The difference in 2020, she says, was a result of the community stepping up to foster pets when the community went into full quarantine.

“I think adoption rates have stayed the same mostly,” Barber says. “Fostering, however, went through the roof for a while.

I definitely think there was a connection between people in the pandemic wanting to foster pets [during that initial quarantine,] but not wanting to commit to it fully.

During the first six months of the pandemic, we had a lot more pets available for foster and lots of local residents who were willing and able to be a foster home for pets than usual.”

Seeking out a pet companion in the midst of a pandemic may seem like an obvious choice for many, and scientific evidence backs the idea that pet ownership has positive human health benefits. One recent study—a collaboration among the UGA College of Veterinary Medicine, the Augusta University/University of Georgia Medical Partnership, UGA College of Public Health, UGA’s Institute of Gerontology, Athens Community Council on Aging, Athens Area Humane Society and Campus Cats Rescue—provides some perspective on just how much pet ownership can benefit older

According to Susan Sanchez, another professor at the College of Veterinary Medicine, there are plenty of positive benefits of being a pet owner. “Animals keep us grounded, and they help us feel good.

We are creatures that need to love and feel loved,” she says. The pandemic, she adds, allowed many people to really dedicate the time and effort that’s required to really take care of a new family member.

While the U.S. is turning the corner on the pandemic, it’s important to remember what issues regarding humans, animals and environmental health existed before this pandemic. Sanchez’s research focuses on the One Health concept—that human, animal and environmental health are all integrally linked. She is quick to point out that we should not only be paying attention to our own health and our pets’ health, but also the health of animals in our environment going forward. Given that the virus that causes COVID-19 was a zoonotic virus—a pathogen that jumped from animals to humans—it’s important to consider just how our actions as humans affect not only our own wellbeing, but the wellbeing of animals and the environment around us.

“Although we are very happy that the pandemic is turning a corner, we should go back and look at the situation [that existed before the pandemic],” says Sanchez.

Practices like the overuse of antibiotics that affected both animal and human environments prior to the pandemic continue to be an issue that humans should keep a keen eye on going forward. f

State with the highest percentage of pet-owning households as of 2016 : Wyoming, 72% (AVMA) State with the lowest percentage : Rhode Island, 45% Georgia’s percentage : 51%, in the bottom 10.

Percentage of U.S. households with pets, 2020 : 67% (APPA) Percentage of U.S. households with pets, 1988 : 56% Amount Americans spent on pet food and treats in 2020 : $42 billion Amount of clay mined in the U.S. for pet litter in 2012 : 2.4 million tons (Washington Post) Percent of U.S. dog owners who give their dogs birthday presents : 36% (APPA) Percentage of pet dogs that are overweight or obese : 56% (Association for Pet Obesity Prevention) Percentage of cats that are overweight or obese : 60% Animal bite calls received by Athens-Clarke County Animal Services in the 2020 fiscal year : 118 (ACC FY2022 budget) Animals impounded by ACC in 2020 : 1,772 Number that were reclaimed by owner : 206 Number that were adopted : 459 Number taken by rescue groups : 826 Euthanasia rate in 2020 at the Athens-Clarke County animal shelter : 9.8% Animal Services expenditures, 2021 fiscal year : $1,148,300 Number of entries, 2020 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show : 2,630, of 24 breeds and varieties (WKC)

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Homeless Pets’ New Digs The Humane Society’s Bigger and Better New Space

A rendering of the new Athens Area Humane Society shelter.

Hester Hikes for Humane Society

By Merritt Melancon news@flagpole.com

ity of the humane society’s current lowcost spay and neuter program and allow helter space for homeless pets is them to offer other low-cost vet services to always at a premium, especially in local animal shelters and pet owners who Athens, so when the Athens Area otherwise would not be able to afford care, Humane Society more than doubles its shel- McCormick says. ter space, it’s a big deal. This August, after It’s not just the size of the facility that more than 15 years in a converted daycare will be game-changing, but the fact that it’s center on Mars Hill Road, the Athens Area a space that has been designed around pets Humane Society will move into its new digs and pet lovers. The color pallet is meant to at 1030 Mitchell Bridge Road. be calming. There are acoustic dampening “One of the things that I love about materials to buffer the din of barking dogs Athens is that it is such a pet-friendly comand excited pet owners. It’s a pleasant place munity,” says Cheryl M. McCormick, who for the animals, McCormick says. took the reins as the advocacy agency’s CEO “We keep the species separate,” she says. in 2020. “This will be a community destina“The cats are high up because cats are predtion where the bond between pets and peoators and prey and they like to be scanning ple is celebrated.” their environment The new space—a sensory cues. The This will be a community for 15,000 square-foot dogs are more social, industrial building so we made sure they destination where the shell that used to be see each other bond between pets and people could a call center—will and interact with the is celebrated. provide 8,000 square people who come in feet for shelter and and out. adoptions and 6,000 square feet for low“Those are the kinds of design considercost veterinary care. About 1,000 square ations that we were able to make. We put feet will be used as an education center and the animals’ welfare front and center and offices. Compare that to the 5,000 square designed around that.” feet of space at the humane society’s Mars While construction has been fairly quick, Hill location for a sense of the shift that’s plans for a new shelter space have been about to happen. in place for more than a decade. The proj“We thoroughly expect that we will be ect, thus far, has been funded chiefly by a able to increase our capacity to help, heal bequest left by Susan McConnell West, who and home pets to more than 11,000 anidied in 2006. Her donation was invested mals every year,” McCormick says. “It is until they could fund the first phase of the currently between 3,000 and 4,000 pets per project. A second phase will entail landscapyear.” ing the four-acre property to allow for dog The new space will provide temporary training classes, agility classes, puppy playhomes for more than 80 cats, kittens, dogs dates and walking trails, McCormick says. and puppies—all with dedicated spaces to “It’s a warm inviting place [where] you keep them healthy and comfortable. The feel welcome, [where] your energy level 125-space parking lot means the AAHS will rises, your anxiety level falls, and it’s just an be able to expand its volunteer corps and inviting place for pets and people,” she says. public outreach offerings. Both were limited “That’s our goal, and I would argue that that by the 17 parking spaces on Mars Hill Road. is really needed here. Athens is the perfect The veterinary clinic will double the capaccommunity for that.” f

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Allyson Hester-White is one of the friendliest faces at Southern Brewing Company.

Her secret? Hiking and dogs.

This summer, she’s combining her two passions by hitting the trail to raise money for the Athens Area Humane Society and AthensPets.

Hester-White thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail in 2015. This year she received one of a limited number of permits to hike the 211-mile Pacific Coast Ridge John Muir Trail in California. It’s the trip of a lifetime, Hester-White said. She wants to make it meaningful for the entire community, so she’s asking people to sponsor mileage to benefit the Athens Area Humane Society and AthensPets through her Paws for a Hike campaign.

“When I was planning the hike, I thought, why the heck not make every mile count for someone other than myself?” Hester-White says. “Imagine the collective impact we could have on our world if we all used a hike as a fundraiser.”

Hester-White—who works at the UGA Fanning Institute for Leadership as an outreach coordinator, in addition to sometimes tending bar—sits on the board of the Athens Area Humane Society. Her history of animal advocacy in Athens goes back to 2000, when she founded athenspets.net to highlight adoptable pets at the Athens-Clarke County Animal Shelter. She continues to sit on that board as well.

So far, she’s reached more than $11,000 of her $12,000 goal. She sets out on her hike in June but plans to wrap up donations July 31. “We all know 2020 sucked for nonprofits, and it is time for individuals to think outside the box to help those organizations that do so much good for our society,” she says.

Patrons can pledge through PledgeIt.org/paws-for-a-hike-fundraiser, and donations will be distributed directly to the two nonprofits. Supporters can find the link to donate, follow along with Hester-White’s journey preparing for the trail and follow progress on her eventual hike at AppalachianTrailClarity.com/JMT. [MM]

Allyson Hester-White hangs with Scruffy, who died in early 2021, and Maya.

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prawling across 22 idyllic acres in Winterville, Sweet Olive Farm Animal Rescue has become a much-needed sanctuary for elderly, neglected and abandoned farm and exotic animals. Sweet Olive’s humble start began in 2010 when owners Kat Howkins and Susan Pritchett, living in Atlanta at the time, received a special permit to house up to 10 dogs—and then added a pot-bellied pig named Mr. Thelma to the mix. Today, the farm is a wonderland of 70 pigs, 12 sheep, 18 goats, 17 alpacas, 12 dogs, 10 cows, nine cats, five guinea pigs, four horses—not to be confused with an additional four miniature horses—three rabbits, three donkeys, a mule, a llama and countless other animals.

Sweet Olive’s mission is twofold: “not only to help animals, but to educate the community, especially the young, about the importance of responsible animal care, ethical eating and the sentience of all creatures.”

To promote the humane treatment of chickens, the farm launched its first-ever Tour de Coop this past weekend, a selfguided virtual event that visits a variety of residential chicken coops in the Athens area. These video tours profile eight different coops and provide valuable insight for curious novices hoping to build their first hen pen, as well as seasoned landlords interested in gathering advanced tips and tricks for enriching the lives of their brood.

Though the pandemic prevented the farm from holding its traditional in-person spring event, event organizers were excited to tap into the rising trend of raising chickens that has noticeably grown in Athens over recent years.

“Many people who had thought about getting chickens for a while had the time to make that happen this year,” says board member Julie Darnell. “We thought it would

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be a good way to showcase local coops, but also have the opportunity to talk about compassionate chicken care.”

Naturally, the farm has accumulated quite an impressive flock of feathered friends—approximately 50 roosters, 40 ducks, 30 hens, eight turkeys, eight guinea fowl, four geese, two cockatiels, one peacock and a number of pigeons. Though some of the chickens have certainly seen darker days in cockfighting rings or aboard deathbound poultry facility trucks, most are now peacefully living free-range under the protection of two Great Pyrenees named Nutmeg and Sassafras.

Because it’s difficult to always accurately determine the sex of a baby chick, many people accidentally purchase roosters, which are prohibited by the Athens Clarke-County backyard chicken ordinance that was passed in 2015. While Sweet Olive Farm Marilyn, a resident rooster of Sweet Olive Farm has been able to re-home some of these refugees—in addition to those arriving from animal control services of as weekly youth summer camps. The farm neighboring counties—Darnell advises that also offers tours every Saturday from 12–1 people should have a good plan in place p.m., with hands-on volunteer hours runbefore they get surprised by a rooster. ning earlier in the day from 9 a.m.–12 p.m.

“Most everyone who gets chickens does “The farm teaches kids about animals so because they care about the animals and and animal care, but it also is an important want to be sure they are treated well,” says place for kids to come and learn and feel Darnell. “Most people end up surprised compassion towards animals and towards at how much they enjoy their chickens each other,” says Darnell. “Many kids, espeand think of them as pets. Part of treating cially the older ones, have become regular chickens well is making sure they have volunteers and have found the farm to be a enough space and are protected… Anyone place where they can have responsibilities getting chickens needs to be prepared to and explore interests. One of the goals of make a coop and run that is predator-proof, the farm is to build a like-minded commuprovides enough ranging space and protects nity of animal-loving children and adults.” the chickens from the heat and cold.”

Beyond the Tour de Coop, there are a As part of its mission to educate the variety of ways to help sustain Sweet Olive, public, Sweet Olive hosts visits from various which received official 501c3 status in school groups throughout the year, as well 2015 and currently operates on a $150,000

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annual budget. In addition to straightforward donations, supporters can sponsor an animal, such as Jarred the baby wild boar, Pastis the mustang, TukTuk the emu, Baabs the sheep or Rose the donkey. A cozy cottage tucked in the woods and a historic farmhouse overlooking a horse pasture are both available for nightly vacation rentals, and the property’s 100-year-old barn doubles as a one-of-a-kind wedding venue.

Knitters can even purchase yarn spun from the alpacas’ fleece.

Proceeds raised through The Tour de Coop will go toward purchasing a tractor that can be used for pasture grading, animal feeding and hayrides during future events.

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By Gordon Lamb threatsandpromises@flagpole.com DANCE OF LIFE: Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year is Athens’ original set of rockers, Ravenstone. Originally formed in 1971 as part band and part student political party, Ravenstone was as well known for its political stances as it was for its rousing live performances. The band has just released its newest album, its first full-length since 2005’s Back On The Rock, and it’s named Dirty, Dusty and Divine. This new record swings with an R&B vibe of the first degree, and careful listeners will notice a direct lineage to SAMMY YONJAI SOHN

as well as Lloyd Handy (aka DJ Boring). The reason I’m telling you all this is because there’s a brand-new, 17-track album from this crew out now named Death 2. While Hopper and Handy contribute all the beats, vocals are all handled by Bauer. There’s a certain demo quality about this, but that doesn’t really detract from anything. The tunes themselves are varied and range from straight click-style beats to nearly GBV-adjacent pop (“What Ifs”). I have to give a hat tip to Bauer in particular, who could have very easily slid into totally stupid King Kong-ish vocals given his penchant for sing-speak on this. But he doesn’t.

He delivers pretty discernible melodies on each track and, more than anything else, exhibits a creative sense of lethargy. Check it out at informationaltapeannouncements. bandcamp.com.

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the band’s original influences, such as the unmistakable MC5-type melody and thrust on “More Love” and “Finger Puppets.” Look for a future article in these pages catching up with the band, but for now, enjoy this over at ravenstone.hearnow.com and keep on keeping up at ravenstone band.com.

WELCOME TO TOWN: Label owner, musician and composer

Marcel Sletten just relocated to Athens from Lodi, CA and brought his Primordial Void label with him. Although it’s nearly, or just barely, three years old, the label has a slate of 20 releases under its belt. Emphasizing the experimental and esoteric, its most recent title comes courtesy of Finnish artist Maria Rossi (aka Cucina Povera) and is named Lumme. I mentioned to Sletten via email that there is an existing community of like-minded artists and label folks here in town, so y’all be friendly and reach out or something. Also of note, Lodi boasts approximately half the population of Athens so that’s an adjustment as well, for sure. Wave and say hey over at primordial-void.com and get up to speed at primordialvoid.bandcamp.com.

PUBLIC SERVICE: Informational Tape Announcements (aka

ITA) is the long-running project of musician and filmmaker Thomas Bauer (Sad Dads) and Joe Hopper (aka DJ JoFi)

you prefer, flautist) Kelly Catlin’s debut album is named Backstory and is available across all major streaming services as we speak. This ambitiously crafted album features its functional focal point at its very beginning. Specifically, the four-part “Memory, Movement” with its attendant parts being “Backyard,” “Shore,” “Backstage” and “Marketplace.” True to this section’s title, these movements actually, you know, move. They’re accompanied by unsettling bits of children’s laughter, audience applause and other outside noises. The album’s most immediately accessible tracks are “The Clocksmith” and “Lilac and Snapdragon,” but it’s most important is probably “In The Forest.” While it’s not even close to a one-to-one comparison, I feel comfortable mentioning that this record—due to its arrangement, complexity and use of breath, the spoken word and select electronics—reminds me most strongly of Laurie Anderson, and that’s always welcome. For more information, please see kellycatlin.com.

TRAIN KEPT A’ROLLIN’: Atlanta’s Terminus Records is on a reissue tear right now and has a few titles that should be of particular interest to Athens music fans. First, in conjunction with Record Store Day they’re rereleasing Col. Bruce Hampton’s 1987 album Arkansas on colored vinyl.

Then, on July 2 and Aug. 13 respectively, they’ll be putting out—again on colored vinyl—Slang’s Bellwether Project (2001) and More Talk About Tonight (2004). Slang was a collaborative project, albeit sometimes with a host of guests, between composer Layng Martine III and Dave Schools (Widespread Panic). For more information, please see terminusrecords.com. f

record review Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel: ‘Oumuamua (Stickfigure Recordings) Titled after the first known interstellar object to visit our solar system—a Hawaiian word roughly translating to “a messenger from afar, arriving first”—’Oumuamua mirrors the inherent mystery and infinite vastness of outer space through ambient soundscapes. Like their namesake comets, tracks such as “Borisov,” “Borrelly” and “Encke” carry a sense of movement as they drift, sweep and swirl across time. Composed of Scott Burland on theremin and Frank Schultz on lap steel, the duo creates music through a process of improvisation. These immersive sonic environments are painted with buzzing drones, hypnotic pulses and other tonal flourishes that feel unsettling and magnificent all at once. While last year’s release was named Halocline for its peculiar parallels to water—thereby essentially grounding itself on Earth—’Oumuamua can be thought of as its atmospheric, celestial counterpart arriving from beyond the stratosphere. Pair this cinematic, cosmic album as the soundtrack for an episode of “Cosmos” or “Planet Earth,” or better yet, take it outdoors and look up at the stars and moon. [Jessica Smith]

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Classes ANIMAL TELEPATHY AND CLAIRVOYANCE (Ancient Suns Intuitive Arts) In “Animal Telepathy,” learn how to send and receive intuitive messages with your animals.

Sundays, June 6–July 25, 1-3:30 p.m. or Mondays, June 7–July 26, 6–8:30 p.m. $275/eight weeks. In “Clairvoyant Meditation,” protect and strengthen the energy body while learning how to use your clairvoyance. Saturdays, June 5– July 10, 10 a.m.–12:30 p.m. $200/ six weeks. Classes meet on Zoom. ancientsunsacademy@gmail.com, www.ancient-intuition.com BLACKSMITHING CLASSES (Greenhow Handmade Ironworks, Comer) “Building a Throwing Tomahawk” covers tools, design elements, target practice and more. May 29, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. $175. www.greenhow handmade.com DEDICATED MINDFULNESS PRACTITIONERS (Online) Weekly Zoom meditations are offered every Saturday at 8:30–9:30 a.m. Email for details. jaseyjones@gmail.com FIX YOUR OWN BIKE (Ben’s Bikes) Learn how to repair your own bike with tools and advice from experts.

May 27, 6-8:30 p.m. $10/hour suggested donation. shop@bike athens.org

art around town ATHICA@CINÉ GALLERY (234 W. Hancock Ave.) Photographer Cindy Karp presents “Pandemic Portraits.” Through June 25.

CREATURE COMFORTS BREWING CO. (271 W. Hancock Ave.) “Respite” presents abstract paintings by Abby Kacen, a cartoonist, illustrator, muralist, chalk artist and founder of Keep It Weird Art Collective. Third Thursday is held May 20 from 6–9 p.m. Currently on view through June 20.

FLICKER THEATRE AND BAR (263 W. Washington St.) Lucy Calhoun’s photographic portrait series “Touch in the Time of COVID” explores tactile comforts during the pandemic.

GALLERY AT HOTEL INDIGO (500 College Ave.) “Athens Facades” presents Mike Landers’ photographs of buildings downtown and in Five Points at dark between 2000–2002.

GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART (90 Carlton St.) “Extra Ordinary: Magic, Mystery and Imagination in American Realism.” Through June 13. • “Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Horvitz Collection” represents three generations of artists dating from the 1940s. Through Sept. 26. • “Modernism Foretold: The Nadler Collection of Late Antique Art from Egypt.” Through Sept. 26. • “Power and Piety in 17th-Century Spanish Art.” Through Nov. 28. • “Whitman, Alabama” features 23 of 52 films from journalist, photographer and filmmaker Jennifer Crandall’s ongoing documentary project of the same name. Through Dec. 12. • “Rediscovering the Art of Victoria Hutson Huntley” shares approximately 30 lithographs inspired by landscape, human figures and the natural world. Through Aug. 15. • “Echoes from Abroad: American Art from the Collection of Barbara Guillaume.” Through Aug. 15. • “Hands and Earth: Perspectives on Japanese Contemporary Ceramics” includes works by some of 20thand 21st-century Japan’s most important artists. Through Aug. 15. • “In Dialogue: Artists, Mentors, Friends: Ronald Lockett and Thornton Dial Sr.” focuses on one work by each artist to examine their friendship and compare their creative approaches. May 29–Nov. 28.

GLASSCUBE@INDIGO (500 College Ave.) A recipient of an Arts in Community Resilience Award from the Athens Cultural Affairs Commission, local fashion designer Tabitha Fielteau presents “Nouveau Bridal,” a collection of handmade dresses. Through June.

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Second Friday of the month, 6–7 p.m. FREE! mfhealy@bellsouth.net SPANISH CLASSES (Athens, GA) For adults, couples and children.

Learn from experts with years of professional experience. Contact for details. 706-372-4349, marina bilbao75@gmail.com YOGA CLASSES (Revolution Therapy and Yoga) “Outdoor Yoga with Meg Brownstone,” every Sunday at 10 a.m. $5–10 suggested donation.

“Trauma Conscious Yoga with Crystal,” every Thursday at 6 p.m. $10 suggested donation. “Yoga for Well-being with Nicole Bechill,” every Saturday on Zoom at 10:30 a.m. “Outdoor Yoga with Miles Bunch” every Tuesday at 5:30 p.m.

Pre-registration required. rubber soulcollective@gmail.com, www. revolutiontherapyandyoga.com ZOOM YOGA (Online) Rev. Elizabeth Alder offers “Off the Floor Yoga” (chair and standing) on Mondays at 1:30 p.m. and “Easy on the Mat” yoga classes on Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. Ongoing classes are $5/class or $18/month. 706-612-8077, ommmever@yahoo.com

Events ACC LIBRARY EVENTS (AthensClarke County Library) The ACC Library and Reflecting, Sharing,

“Guard Dog” by Walton Harris is currently on view in the 46th Juried Exhibition at the Lyndon House Arts Center through June 26.

Learning host “Become a Dementia Friend,” a virtual lecture on Dementia Friends, an initiative to change people’s perceptions of dementia.

Pre-registration required. May 26 at 2 p.m. One-on-One Computer Tutorials are available May 27 at 9 a.m.

“OverDrive & Libby: Free E-books, Audiobooks and Digital Magazines” is held June 1 at 10 a.m. www. athenslibrary.org/virtual-events ATHENS CHAUTAUQUA LECTURES (Zoom) “Voting: How Should We Safeguard and Improve Our Elections” is held June 8 at 2:30 p.m.

Visit website to register. www.historycomesalive.org/performances/ athens ATHENS FARMERS MARKET (Bishop Park) The 2021 season will run Saturdays through Dec. 18, 8 a.m.–12 p.m. www.athensfarmers market.net ATHENS SHOWGIRL CABARET (Sound Track Bar) The cabaret celebrates National Pride Month

LYNDON HOUSE ARTS CENTER (211 Hoyt St.) Roll Out the Barrels presents 16 rain barrels transformed by local artists into functional works of garden art. Online bidding runs through May 27 at rolloutthebarrels.org. • The 46th annual Juried Exhibition features 161 works by 116 local artists selected by juror Hallie Ringle of the Birmingham Museum of Art. Through June 26. • On view in the lobby case, Jourdon Joly presents a collection of cast resin ice cream cones. Through June 26. • Collections from our Community presents Arthur Johnson’s (of the Bar-B-Q Killers) shark collection, which he has been building since the early ‘80s. Through June 26. • Curated

by La Ruchala Murphy and featuring the works of Black artists living in the South, “#NotAStereotype” challenges the labels and limitations perceived about race, nationality, gender, ability and sexual orientation. Through June 24. • Will Eskridge’s “Endless Party: A Collection of Party Animals” offers a celebratory look at outcast animals like bats, snakes and raccoons. The show includes to-go maps for a scavenger hunt at Bear Hollow Zoo and Memorial Park. Through July 24. • AJ Aremu presents a large-scale installation for “Window Works,” a site-specific series that utilizes the building’s front entrance windows for outdoor art-viewing.

MADISON-MORGAN CULTURAL CENTER (434 S. Main St., Madison) “The 125th Anniversary Exhibition: Celebrating the Home of the Madison-Morgan Cultural Center” explores the Romanesque Revival building that was built as a graded schoolhouse in 1895 and became a regional cultural center in 1976. Through June.

MASON-SCHARFENSTEIN MUSEUM OF ART (567 Georgia Street, Demorest) “Michael Ross: Foothills” features lush depictions of forests, fields, wetlands, birds and people. Artist talk June 11 at 11 a.m. Part of the North Georgia Arts Tour June 11–13. Closing reception Aug. 19 from 5–7 p.m.

OCONEE COUNTY LIBRARY (1080 Experiment Station Rd., Watkinsville) Oil paintings by DQ Nguyen. Through May. OCONEE CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION (34 School St., Watkinsville) The 26th annual “SouthWorks” exhibition is a nationally juried art show featuring works from across the country. In conjunction with “Southworks 2021,” the annual Director’s Choice exhibition features “Gardens of the South” by Greyson Smith. These mixed-media works on paper depict public gardens in Georgia, Florida and the Carolinas. Through May 28.

STATE BOTANICAL GARDEN OF GEORGIA (2450 S. Milledge Ave.) “Art From the Garden” shares acrylic, oil, watercolor, graphite, color pencil and pastel works created on site at the garden by the Athens Area Plein Air

all weekend long with nightly performances. Friday’s theme is “Gay Icon” and Saturday’s theme is “PRIDE.” June 25–26, 7 p.m. www. athensshowgirlcabaret.com ATHENTIC’S BIRTHDAY BASH (Athentic Brewing Company) DJ Osmose spins vinyl on the patio on June 25 at 7 p.m. An early bird VIP tasting event will offer access to special release anniversary beers on June 26 from 10 a.m.–4 p.m. $30 (Tickets required), followed by performances by Jay Memory (5:30 p.m.) and The Modern Pin-Ups (8:30 p.m.). Anniversary festivities also include a performance by The Orange Constant and a release of a special collaboration beer on June 27, 5:30–10 p.m. $10. www.athenticbrewing.com BOGART LIBRARY EVENTS (Bogart Library) KnitLits Knitting Group is held every Thursday at 6 p.m. Virtual Booktalks are held May 28 and June 4 at 2 p.m. Bogart Bookies Adult

Book Club will discuss The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah on June 8 at 1 p.m. www.athenslibrary.org BOOK LAUNCH PARTY (Online) Avid Bookshop presents local artist and author Philip Juras in celebration of Picturing the Prairie: A Vision of Restoration, a volume of 54 paintings celebrating the natural beauty of the rare tallgrass prairie environments of Illinois and the conservation that sustains them. May 27, 7 p.m. www.avidbookshop.com CINÉ DRIVE-IN (Former General Time/Westclox Lot, 100 Newton Bridge Rd.) Beginning June 1 with a screening of Mad Max: Fury Road, Ciné will host weekly drive-in movies on Tuesdays with food trucks and concessions. Upcoming films include Selena, Creed, Jurassic Park and Singin’ In the Rain. www. athenscine.com IN THEIR SHOES 10K (Virtual) Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center’s Loran Smith Center for

Painters. Through July 16. • Dortha Jacobson shares a collection of 25 paintings, many of which are scenes from the garden or were created with the local Athens Plein Air Painters. Through June 20.

STEFFEN THOMAS MUSEUM OF ART (4200 Bethany Rd., Buckhead) “Healing Our Humanity: Finding Hope, Love and Unity” presents works

by Margaret C. Brown, Zerric Clinton, Oliver Enwonwu, Andrae Green and Nnamdi Okonkwo. Through July 10.

TINY ATH GALLERY (174 Cleveland Ave.) Manda McKay presents “Scenes from Quarantine,” a series of still lifes that highlight humanitarian concerns by combining natural objects into suggestive new forms. Email tinyathgallery@gmail.com for a private viewing appointment through May. UGA OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY (Online) The annual Earth Day Art Challenge is a virtual exhibition of artwork, performance, video and writing that demonstrates an appreciation, awareness or action. Visit sustainability. uga.edu.

UGA SCHOOL OF LAW (225 Herty Dr.) Williams Elliot Stiles Jr., an accomplished artist, Atlanta attorney and UGA School of Law alumnus, recently unveiled a new commission, “1961,” to commemorate the 60th anniversary of desegregation at UGA. UGA MAIN LIBRARY (320 S. Jackson St.) “Georgia Trailblazers: Honoring the 60th Anniversary of Desegregation at UGA” chronicles the historic events of 1961 when Hamilton Holmes and Charlene Hunter became the first African American students admitted to the university.

UGA SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARIES (300 S. Hull St.) “Pylon: Tourists in Rock ’n Roll” celebrates the local band through photos, outfits, memorabilia and more. Through May. • “Making Space: Fighting for Inclusion, Building Community at UGA” chronicles the journey of students advocating for racial and social justice on campus. Through July 2. • “The Hargrett Hours: Exploring Medieval Manuscripts” presents original items from the collections, dating back centuries, as well as findings from students’ indepth studies. Through Aug. 26. • The new Ted Turner Exhibition Hall and Gallery showcases CNN founder and environmentalist Ted Turner’s life and legacy through memorabilia, photographs and other items.

WILLSON CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES AND ARTS (Online) As part of UGA’s Spotlight on the Arts, the Willson Center presents “Shelter Projects,” a virtual exhibition of over 30 projects created by graduate students or community practitioners who reflect pandemic experiences through the arts. willson.uga.edu.

Cancer Support hosts a virtual run/walk to support patients and survivors in the region. Record your distance before May 29. Participants can pick up their T-shirt, awards and ice cream during a drive-thru celebration for National Cancer Survivor’s Day will be held June 6, 1–4 p.m. $20–30. www. intheirshoesathens.org JUNETEENTH ON THE BLOCK (585 Vine St.) Farm to Neighborhood presents a Juneteenth celebration with food, vendors and family-friendly fun. Live music by Cassie Chantel. June 19, 4–8 p.m.

LGBTQIA+ VIRTUAL ALPHABET FAMILY GATHERING (Online) This is a safe space for anyone on the LGBTQIA+/TGQNB spectrum.

Fourth Sunday of every month, 6–8 p.m. uuathensga.org/justice/ welcoming-congregation MARIGOLD MARKET (Pittard Park, Winterville) Celebrate with live music by Dodd Ferrelle and kids activities. Vendors will offer local produce, prepared and baked goods, and arts and crafts. Season runs every Saturday through Dec. 11, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. marigoldmarket winterville@gmail.com OCAF FINE FURNITURE & ANTIQUE SALE (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) This first-ever event presents hand-picked fine furniture and antiques. May 29–30, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. www.ocaf.com READER MEET WRITER: MUSICIAN & AUTHOR WILL JOHNSON (Zoom) Avid Bookshop hosts Johnson in celebration of his book, If or When I Call. John is a musician who has played in Centro-matic, South San Gabriel, Marie/Lepanto, Overseas, New Multitudes and Monster of Folk. June 3, 7 p.m. www.avidbookshop.com SOUTHERN STAR STUDIO OPEN GALLERY (Southern Star Studio) Southern Star Studio is a working, collective ceramics studio, established by Maria Dondero in 2016.

The gallery contains members’ work, primarily pottery. Every Saturday, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. www.southern starstudioathens.com SUNDAY FUNDAY (Rabbit Hole Studios) This community gathering is for playing drums, singing songs, playing ping pong and board games, reading books, doing yoga, making art and more. Every Sunday, 6 p.m.–12 a.m. Acoustic

song/drum circle runs 6–9 p.m. followed by games in the grand hall. Donations accepted. Memberships offering access to the musical museum and private lounge are also available for $16/month. www. rabbitholestudios.org TERRAPIN EVENTS (Terrapin Beer Co.) Game Night held May 25.

Trivia held May 26, 5:30–7:30 p.m.

Biggum’s BBQ food truck May 28.

Industry night held May 30 (bring pay stub from hotel, restaurant or bar business). terrapinbeer.com ‘TIL BETH DO US PART (Elbert Theatre, Elberton) Encore Productions presents a Jones, Hope & Wooten comedy about marriage. June 4–5 & 11–12, 7 p.m. June 6 & 13, 2 p.m. $11–16. tking@cityofelberton.net TRIVIA AT ATHENTIC (Athentic Brewing Co.) Win beer tabs and prizes. Every second Monday of the month, 7 p.m. athentic brewing.com TOUR DE COOP, CHICKEN COOP TOUR OF HOMES (Online) Sweet Olive Farm hosts a virtual selfguided tour of eight local chicken coops. Available now through summer. $15. www.sweetolivefarm.org/ products/tdc WEST BROAD FARMERS MARKET (300 S. Rocksprings St.) The market is open for shopping each week from Sunday at 5 p.m. to Thursday at 1 p.m., with a drive-through (or walk/bike-through) pick-up on Saturdays from 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. wbfm.locallygrown.net

Live Music AMPLIFY ATHENS (Southern Brewing Company) Amplify My Community and Aubrey Entertainment present performances by Drivin N Cryin, John Moreland, Lera Lynn, S.G. Goodman, T. Hardy Morris, Jay Gulley and JoJo Glidewell, Claire Campbell, Austin Darnell and Mike Killeen. Proceeds benefit Family Connection-Communities in Schools of Athens. June 12, 12 p.m.–11 p.m. $35+.

ATHENS VFW DANCE (Athens VFW) Live music and line dancing during band breaks by David and Linda.

Ramblin Country Band performs May 28. 8–11 p.m. $10. normal townduke@gmail.com ATHENTIC BREWING CO. (108 Park Ave.) Quentin Smith jazz duo per-

forms every Thursday on the patio.

May 27 at 6 p.m. www.athentic brewing.com BRASS TRANSIT MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND CONCERT (The Farm at Oconee, Greensboro) Brass Transit performs the music of Chicago during an outdoor concert. Table and lawn seating available. May 30, 4:30 p.m. $25–75. www.opas.org FRONT PORCH BOOK STORE (102 Marigold Lane, Winterville) Enjoy free free concerts on the lawn. The lineup includes Janet and the Blue Dogs (June 19) Shows held at 6 p.m. jmazzucc@uga.edu GEORGIA LEGENDS CONCERT (John W. Swails Center Auditorium, Royston) Glen Templeton performs.

Aug. 28, 7–10 p.m., $25–35. www. legendsconcert.org HENDERSHOT’S COFFEE (237 Prince Ave.) Live music every Friday and Saturday. The lineup includes Bichos Vivos May 28–29.

Visit website to reserve your seat. www.hendershotsathens.com HIP-HOP PIT STOP (Live Wire Athens) This month-long residency features DJs, featured performances and open mics (submit song by prior Sunday) every Wednesday from 8–11 p.m. Tribe House Records Night features DJ Kut Daily, Cassie Chantel and more on June 2. GA Pro Night features DJ Kountry and Kxng Blanco on June 9. MMR Night features DJ Sean Swift and Ant Da Ripper on June 16. Volumes Night features DJ Bob Fish and Trvy on June 23. ALE Night features DJ Chief Rocka on June 30. www.livewireathens.com HOTEL INDIGO (500 College Ave.) Avery Deakins performs weekly on the patio. All ages. May 27, 5:30–8 p.m. www.indigoathens.com INTERNATIONAL GRILL & BAR (1155 Mitchell bridge Rd.) The Splitz Band performs May 28 & June 25 at 7 p.m. All ages. www. facebook.com/IGNAthensGA INTO THE WILDWOOD SUMMER SERIES (Cloverleaf Farm) Wildwood Revival presents a concert series. Old Crow Medicine Show performs May 28. $65–85. www. wildwoodrevival.com JAKE SHIMABUKURO (Classic Center Theatre) Ukulele master Jake Shimabukuro performs with bassist Jackson Waldhoff and guitarist Dave Preston. June 13. $35–45. www. classiccenter.com

PICKIN’ ON THE GREENE (Downtown Greensboro) This free summer concert features sets by John Dunn and the Jazzmen, Pullin’ Strings, and Tim Cadiere and Washboard Road Band. June 18, 6–10 p.m. www.facebook.com/downtown greensboroga PORTERHOUSE GRILL (459 E. Broad St.) Enjoy dinner and some smooth jazz. Wednesdays, 6–9 p.m. www.porterhouseathens.com RC COWBOY (Online) RC Cowboy performs on Hopin. May 27, 6 p.m. $5. www.hopin.com RUMORS (440 Foundry Pavilion) The Fleetwood Mac tribute band performs. Different pod sizes are available for attendees. June 3, 7 p.m. www.classiccenter.com SOUTHERN BREWING CO. (231 Collins Industrial Blvd.) Sunday Trivia with Solo Entertainment Sundays at 5 p.m. Jim and Jack Miller perform May 27 at 7 p.m. Samer & Tyler Key perform May 28 at 6 p.m. Josh Purgason performs May 28 at 7:30 p.m. Anderlan performs May 29 at 2 p.m. Randall Bramblett Band on May 29 at 5 p.m. Neighbor Lady and Annie Leeth perform June 3 at 7 p.m. Max Eve (5:30 p.m.) and Matchbox Rodeo (8 p.m.) perform June 4. Live Wrestling held June 5 at 7 p.m. www.sobrewco.com

Kidstuff ACC LIBRARY EVENTS (Athens-Clarke County Library) Virtual storytimes are offered via Facebook weekdays at 10:30 a.m. www.facebook.com/athenschildrens ART CAMPS FOR PROMISING YOUNG ARTISTS (KA Artist Shop) One week, in-person camps are offered for ages 12–15. Camps run late May through July. www. kaartist.com BOGART LIBRARY EVENTS (Bogart Library) Virtual Dungeons and Dragons Club meets May 27 at 6 p.m.

Summer reading program begins June 1. “Virtual Kitchen Science with Ms. Kay” is held June 2 at 3 p.m. “Tales with Tails: Puppet Show” is held June 8 at 3 p.m. www.athenslibrary.org CAMP FOXFIRE (Foxfire Woods and Farm) Ages 5–12 can enjoy outdoor play, learn about arm life and discover local plants. $125/week.

Ages 13–17 participate in activities

focusing on leadership, service, agriculture and animal husbandry. $25/week. Weekly sessions run Mondays–Fridays, 8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. from June 7–July 16. foxfire woodsandfarm@gmail.com, www. foxfirewoodsandfarm.com DECONSTRUCT TO RECONSTRUCT (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) The class will entail collage cut and paste assemblage by deconstructing ephemera in order to reconstruct a new narrative by the students following a theme each week. For ages 12–18. Thursdays, June 3–24 or July 1–22, 1-4 p.m. $85–100. www.ocaf.com/learn OCAF SUMMER ART CAMP (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) Themes include artist appreciation (June 7–11), board game bonding (June 14–18), STEM (June 21–25), around the world in five days (July 6–9), working stronger together (July 12–16), rainforest discoveries (July 19–23) and mosaic madness (July 26–30). www.ocaf.com SPLASH PADS (Multiple Locations) The Walker Park Splash Pad is open May 29–Aug. 1 from 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Closed Mondays. The Rocksprings Park Splash Pad opens May 29. $1/person. Pool passes are $20.

SUMMER CAMP SEASON (Multiple Locations) The Athens-Clarke County Leisure Services Department hosts summer camps for children and teens in art, nature education, sports and theater.

Scholarships available. www. accgov.com/camps, www.accgov. com/myrec SWIM PROGRAMS (Bishop Park, East Athens Community Center & Lay Park) ACC Leisure Services offers swim lessons for children. $33–50. The kinderswim program for 5-year-old children meets three times a week for three weeks for free. www.accgov.com/myrec TUTORING (Online) The Athens Regional Library System is now offering free, live online tutoring via tutor.com for students K-12, plus college students and adult learners.

Daily, 2–9 p.m. www.athenslibrary. org VIRTUAL SUMMER CAMPS (Treehouse Kid and Craft) Camp themes include woodland fairy and gnomes, textile and fiber arts, circus, pen pals, mini museum, rebel girls, flower gardens and more.

Register online. $200/camp. www. treehousekidandcraft.com

Support Groups RECOVERY DHARMA (Recovery Dharma) This peer-led support group offers a Buddhist-inspired path to recovery from any addiction.

Visit the website for info about Zoom meetings. Thursdays, 7–8 p.m. FREE! www.athensrecovery dharma.org ZOOM INN (Online) Nuçi’s Space holds weekly meetings on Thursdays for people to drop by and say hello virtually. Email lesly@ nuci.org

Word on the Street ART FOR ATHENS (Online) The Red & Black hosts Art for Athens to support Nuçi’s Space. Donated work by artists is sold and shipped through the publication’s online store. Participating artists include R. Wood, Maria Dondero, Jamie Calkin, James Burns and Chris Robinson. www.redandblack.com/store CLASSIC CITY TOASTMASTERS (Zoom) This is an encouraging group for individuals who want to develop their communication and public speaking skills. Meetings are held 2–3 times a month on Thursday evenings. 706-202-7566 ROLL OUT THE BARRELS ONLINE SILENT AUCTION (Athens, GA) Bid on 16 rain barrels painted by local artists. Barrels can be seen in person at the Lyndon House Arts Center.

Proceeds benefit the Athens-Clarke County Green School Program.

Online auction runs through May 27. www.rolloutthe barrels.org SURVEY ON PROPOSED PUBLIC RESTROOM (Online) The ACC Central Services Department is currently seeking public input about a proposed public restroom facility in downtown Athens. Take the survey before June 15. www.accgov.com/ surveys VIRTUAL INK WRITERS GROUP (Online) This creative writing group is open for adults to share work, give suggestions and support each other. Meets the third Wednesday of every month at 8 p.m. via Google Meets. Register by email. jmitchell @athenslibrary.org f

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This feels like a last resort writing to you to see whether or not I am the asshole.

I think my friend might have some internalized racism, because she says things like “I don’t want to get tan too much and turn to another race” and seems to avoid Black coworkers who are too “ghetto” or who do not have a higher education degree. She loves country music and going to General’s, which I do not hold against her, except that that’s the main music she wants to listen to and the only bar she wants to go to. I love going out with her to other locations outside of Athens, but the way she talks it sounds like she wants nothing to do with the Black

having to face their own prejudices and misconceptions. I have a great old friend from high school who is one of my favorite people on Facebook, but she’s also one of these people who worship capitalism to the point that she is mad at blue-collar workers for bettering themselves post-COVID. You know the ones: They crow about how lazy and ungrateful people are for wanting to quit the service industry and go on to more fulfilling jobs, and they suck because Sonic is understaffed now, and it takes too long to get her cherry limeade. We are both Black women, and I was a weirdo growing up, but she did not ostracize me like some of our other peers did. That’s important to me, and I won’t forget that, but that doesn’t mean I have to deal with her being a classist butthole. Also, we don’t see each other regularly, so getting

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We are both children of immigrants, but I think she subscribed to the “Black people just don’t try hard enough” mentality a long time ago. I do not believe that. I 100% disagree. I have worked very hard for what I have, but I also recognize that I have an immense amount of privilege as a straight cis halfAsian, half-white person with a stable family, even though I present as a “brown” person and so does she. How do I deal with her friend like this? We have been friends for several years, and she is well aware of my personal views, so I think it might be time to give up instead of trying to get her to see how much we have compared to others instead of what we lack.

It just feels so awkward to navigate this with a friend who I think should understand the nuance of our situation as first-generation people of color and women in the South, but I can only take upon educating fellow brown folks so much!

Frustrated With A Friend Hey Frustrated, If you do decide to dump this person, I would support that 100%. I understand the struggle of wanting to maintain friendships with other marginalized people while also

her out of my life was easy: unfollow, mute, unfriend.

Classism is tacky, but racism is a no-go for me. You can start challenging your friend’s casual racism by calling it out every single time she does it. If she calls something ghetto or tries to imply that all Black people or people of color are lazy, ask her to explain what she means. Make her go through each point of her position and defend it. Show her the fallacies of her perspective and how they’re not based in facts, but learned racism on her part. I’m willing to bet that she has weird identity issues about her own brown skin, but that doesn’t make it OK for her to be racist towards other marginalized people.

Ultimately, none of this is your job to fix or tolerate. You can chip away at her racism and help her gain some perspective if you want, but that is emotional labor that I don’t think that people of color owe to anyone anymore, not even each other. There’s plenty of other friendships for you to experience, and they’d probably be less stressful and more fulfilling overall. f Need advice? Email advice@flagpole.com or use our anonymous online form at flagpole.com/ get-advice.

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