racism – David G. Pace

Interstate 80: A Serialized Travelogue: Part 21

David G. Pace July 4, 2012 July 22, 2015 UncategorizedLeave a comment

Part 21 There is a frontiersman of sorts by the name of Wayne Baker who actually lives not far from where we are now, speeding towards Laramie. He’s one of the “Greatest Generation,” we’re told. In fact he’s happy to tell you that in so many words in a …

City Parks I: I Remember Messrs. Fields and Martin

David G. Pace April 23, 2010 August 19, 2020 UncategorizedLeave a comment

August 2019–It’s the 39th anniversary this week of the murder of two young black men–Theodore T. Fields, Jr. and David L. Martin–in Liberty Park, Salt Lake City. The murderer was an avowed racist who had killed serially before. This was his last crime before being caught, sentenced and, thankfully, imprisoned. …