About ten people attended the weekly protest rally against racial injustice in Jefferson Tuesday at the Greene County Courthouse.

Organizer Dale Hanaman tells Raccoon Valley Radio since starting these rallies the week following the death of George Floyd while in custody of a former Minneapolis police officer, his message continues to be the same by standing up for people who don’t have a voice. He recalls an experience he had at a previous rally when he wore a Black Lives Matters t-shirt.

“Someone called me a name simply because I had a t-shirt on, that makes an impact. We’re basically a white, middle-class to lower-class community, and interactions with people of color are probably pretty limited, both in everyday life as well as all during one’s life.”

At Tuesday’s event, Hanaman read a passage from the book “Caste: Origins of Discontents” by Isabel Wilkerson. In the passage, Hanaman told of the author’s viewpoint that today’s people are not responsible for actions that happened in the past, but we are responsible for actions we do today. The group then decided that due to early voting at the courthouse, they would meet next week near the Greene County Community Center in Jefferson.