You’ll get the Monitor Weekly magazine, the Monitor Daily email, and unlimited access to post shared by Universal Orlando Resort is always on the menu at Illumination’s Minion Café. If you’re looking for bran muffin journalism, you can subscribe to the Monitor for $15. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.īut you know what? We change lives. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.” My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. I thought white was the raceless race – just plain, normal, the one against which all others were measured.”She points to an “inexplicable tension” many white people admit to when considering race, a feeling of “something’s not right.”Addressing that feeling can often be the first order of business in the reparations process.Ībout a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: Irving, “I didn’t think I had a race, so I never thought to look within myself for answers. Who knows when there will be sustainable balance? But that’s going to take years and years.”When she first started to probe her own feelings about race, wrote Ms. Most often, they are not financial at all, but an acknowledgment of, atonement for, and education about the cascade of damage sent rolling down the centuries by slavery.As Monitor reporter Ali Martin reports in today’s Daily, California’s Reparations Task Force sent the legislature its recommendations yesterday, but that’s just the beginning the state has to figure out what it can actually do. “When will this be finished?” is a frequent question reparations advocates field from white people. “There is no endpoint,” answers Debby Irving, who wrote the book “Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race.” The undergirding of reparations “isn’t linear. They are not a big-fix payoff with an endpoint. In reporting and editing on the Monitor’s ongoing reparations project, I’ve been reminded repeatedly by sources that reparations are a process – institutional as well as personal.
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