Why We Need to Represent
By G. S. Norwood On his last full day in office, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted that multiculturalism “is not who America is.” He is wrong, of course. America has always been a multicultural nation. Our music, literature, art, and beautifully varied forms of worship make that clear. They’re all informed by the people who stepped forward to represent their cultures. They shared their experiences of growing up African, Asian, Latinx, Native, gay, bi, or transgendered. The day…