Two Obits

Two Obits in the DNT today caught my attention.

First Dr. Jane Hodgson

I didn’t know the good Doctor but her appearance in Duluth was contemporaneous with mine and with Roe v Wade. She helped bring the Women’s Health Center to town as the Catholic Church acquired all the medical facilities and hid behind new laws which allowed the church to prevent medical procedures it found theologically objectionable from being performed in them. That meant abortion. It was also a time when extreme pro lifers were assassinating doctors who performed the procedure.

I didn’t know Dr. Hodgson but she was a brave woman.

Second William Styron.

When I was in high school my Father suggested that I read the book “Confessions of Nat Turner.”

If I ever had any qestion about how black Americans could be so successfully subjugated for so long and what exactly that subjugation might look like on the personal level this book spelled it out starkly. It was so good that black Americans were inclined to think it was written by a black man at first. Sadly, many turned their back on it when they discovered the color of the author’s skin.

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