Ok, so I've owed you this list for a while now: Carl Braden and Will Campbell (two Barnraisers icons!), Henry Wallace, Tom T. Hall (see, I know some people who aren't anti-racist activists; I highly recommend the Cocaine and Rhinestones episode about him), all four members of Fugazi, Wendell Berry, Sam Anderson (he should make the list for the chips essay alone!), Olof Palme, Boban Marjanovi.
Mr Rogers yes. Also my son is absolutely head over heels for Bob Ross and so far in our research on his life we haven’t found any skeletons in his closet. Steve Irwin also comes to mind as a universally loved white man. None of them made it on to our money but they all lived lives of integrity and generosity that deserves emulation. It’s a slippery slope though. All of our hero’s are humans and everyone’s done or said things they aren’t proud of. I think maybe that’s the part to strive for with our white male children. Teaching them to own their mistakes and grow from them. It seems to me that’s where a lot of the emotional constipation is stemming from with the grown up versions. They’re just refusing to be called out on their bullshit and instead doubling down. Maybe we don’t have a lot of hero’s for our kids right now. The only way to correct that is to raise some.
Jokic, Harvey Milk, DJ Savarese, Paul Wellstone, George Saunders?
Mr. Rogers checks out.
Ok, so I've owed you this list for a while now: Carl Braden and Will Campbell (two Barnraisers icons!), Henry Wallace, Tom T. Hall (see, I know some people who aren't anti-racist activists; I highly recommend the Cocaine and Rhinestones episode about him), all four members of Fugazi, Wendell Berry, Sam Anderson (he should make the list for the chips essay alone!), Olof Palme, Boban Marjanovi.
Steve Kerr?
Mr Rogers yes. Also my son is absolutely head over heels for Bob Ross and so far in our research on his life we haven’t found any skeletons in his closet. Steve Irwin also comes to mind as a universally loved white man. None of them made it on to our money but they all lived lives of integrity and generosity that deserves emulation. It’s a slippery slope though. All of our hero’s are humans and everyone’s done or said things they aren’t proud of. I think maybe that’s the part to strive for with our white male children. Teaching them to own their mistakes and grow from them. It seems to me that’s where a lot of the emotional constipation is stemming from with the grown up versions. They’re just refusing to be called out on their bullshit and instead doubling down. Maybe we don’t have a lot of hero’s for our kids right now. The only way to correct that is to raise some.