Opinion: My tiny, white town just held a protest. We’re not alone.
Residents of Norwood, Colo., protest the death of George Floyd. Judy Muller is a professor emerita at the USC Annenberg School of Journalism.
Norwood, Colo., is one of the last places anyone might have expected to see a racial-justice protest. The population here is around 550. The vast majority of those people are white. In 2016, they narrowly voted for President Trump. Our tiny town sits atop a beautiful mesa at an elevation of around 7,000 feet, surrounded by ranches that go back generations.
About 40 people, as it turns out. Which, in a town this size, is no small thing. Under a dramatic sky painted withspitting out shafts of rain that never quite reached the ground, the library grounds began to fill. The two young women who had organized the vigil began with a statement: “Tonight we gather because we agree that George Floyd’s death was brutal and tragic. In Norwood, support for police and Black Lives Matter are not exclusive.
Folks were invited to walk along a path where “notes of contemplation” had been placed, one suggested that people “consider how a tragedy like this would affect you if you lost a family member to this kind of violence.” A strong wind gusted over the mesa, blowing away some of the notes and snuffing out candles. No matter. People seemed grateful to the organizers for bringing them together. And for keeping politics out of it.
One of Norwood’s two law enforcement officers, Deputy Marshal Travis Hardy, explained his reason for joining the protest: “No life is less important than any other.”to be isolated. Especially when something this big is happening in the world. We want to have a connection to it.”If our vigil connects Norwood to the cause of justice for Floyd, it also connects us to other small, predominantly white towns across the country staging similar protests.
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