When we conceptualize 

our nation as an ecosystem, 
our national and societal 
wounds — and their urgent 
need for repair — become 
deeply 
apparent. 
Despite 

this dire need for healing, 
it is also society’s responsi-
bility to strive toward that 
reparation — to strive to 
nourish, to thrive effective-
ly and efficiently. Michigan 
in Color’s was established 
in pursuit of healing and 
education. And while we 
attempt to distinguish our-
selves as a section, we must 
continue with dignity and 
unwavering 
reclamation: 

The kind of resonance we 
can use to amplify your sen-
timents, stories, ideas and 
truth — inspiring a com-
munity understanding and 
safety. A creation of a new 
form of justice. 

Despite society’s superfi-

cial attempts to placate peo-
ple of color, this space was 
created to actualize empow-
erment and flourishing in a 
nurturing community until 
these safe spaces are not an 
abnormality, but an expec-
tation.

The people have shown 

us the amount of revolu-
tion that can happen in just 
a few short months. They 
have further elucidated— 
there exists a dire need for a 
nuanced approach to politi-
cal and social movements, 
with knowledge of our his-
torical 
past 
championed 

by the minority. We have 
learned 
that 
revolutions 

begin with education. We 
intend to start off the year 
on that note and ensure that 
the movement lives unapol-
ogetically in our work. To 
our amazing summer man-
aging 
editors, 
Gabrijela 

Skoko and Cheryn Hong, we 
thank you for bringing the 
fire and diligence to MiC 
that allowed this section to 
be a platform for that educa-
tion, and we thank all of our 
amazing writers for provid-
ing us with content that 
could enlighten week after 
week. Let’s keep it rolling. 

Michigan 
in 
Color 
is 

an entity whose work is 
grounded in ancestral and 
world knowledge, pursuing 
and springboarding valu-
able change with empathy 
and unity. In everything we 
do, we hope to inspire oth-
ers to center intersectional 
voices, injustices and sys-
tems of oppression in order 
to properly establish a route 
toward restorative justice. 
In doing this, one will inevi-
tably learn about the sur-
prisingly universal ways in 
which we have all experi-
enced life; we are not as dif-
ferent as we may proclaim 
to be. The colonial violence 
that oppresses Black peo-
ple in America is the same 
that oppresses Palestinians 
across the ocean, is the same 
that separates immigrant 
families at the border, is 
the same that draws district 
lines and upholds systemic 

poverty and mass incar-
ceration. It is intolerable, if 
not deplorable, that a small 
fraction of the population, 
the billionaire elite, are 
given the power to destroy 
and exploit the environment 
to the exponential degree 
that they have. The voices 
we give a platform to in our 
space are voices of change, 
ones that have experienced 
some degree of oppression 
and who work to actively 
deconstruct 
the 
systems 

perpetuating that oppres-
sion. These voices and our 
editors strive to empower 
individuals and bridge com-
munities, but most impor-
tantly and overwhelmingly 
to incite transformation, to 
incite revolution. 

This is a call to action. 

A call to join the ceaseless 
fight until all of our commu-
nities have the same access 
to opportunity that we have 
as students at this Univer-
sity. A call to requiring and 
demanding 
dignity 
and 

respect as a human right. To 
expose and dispose of sys-
tems and mechanisms that 
use “—the consistent appli-
cation of violent solutions 
to nonviolent, and often 
nonexistent, 
problems.” 

Michigan in Color needs 
your energy and your art, 
your peace and your pres-
ence, not only as tangible 
documentation of our dis-
satisfactions, but also of our 
jubilations. 

To the university and to 

communities across cam-
pus, it is not enough to be 
aware. “Don’t you see the 
plants, the birds, the spi-
ders and bees going about 
their individual tasks, put-
ting the world in order, as 
best as they can? And you’re 
not willing to do your job as 
a human being? Why aren’t 
you running to do what your 
nature demands;” why is it 
radical to demand what our 
nature inclines?

We urge all readers to con-

tinue to learn and unlearn. 
Continue to question the 
systems that we are volun-
tarily and involuntarily a 
part of. Continue to read-
just your lens when a new 
angle is presented — having 
the difficult conversations 
along with the joyful ones. 

We urge all artists, all 

creators to continue shar-
ing your stories with MiC 
and in general. We are 
currently 
hiring 
colum-

nists, bloggers and graphic 
designers. If you are a stu-
dent of color interested in 
contributing go online to 
apply and learn more about 
open positions. You do not 
need to hold one or any of 
these positions to write 
for the section, we accept 
contributions 
regularly, 

which you can submit to 
our 
email: 
michiganin-

color@umich.edu. Do not 
underestimate your voice 
or your intellect — they are 
the foundations of peace 
and revolution, of hope and 
understanding and they are 
integral to societal develop-
ment. 

MiC Editorial Staff

The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
Michigan In Color
6 — Wednesday, September 2, 2020 
A Michigan in Color Manifesto 

Photo courtsey of DANIELA LUGO 

“There is never time in the 

future in which we will 

work out our salvation. The 

challenge is in the moment; 

the time is always now” 

– James Baldwin

By Pam Amick Klawitter
©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
09/02/20

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

09/02/20

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:

Release Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2020

ACROSS

1 Protective wear 

for swimmers

5 Disaster 

response gp.

9 Jessica of “The 

Politician”

14 Turner and a 

president

15 Cockpit 

calculations, 
briefly

16 Think tank output
17 Pirates’ offensive
19 “Drop it!”
20 Popular ISP
21 Fabled broom 

rider

22 Trees with light 

wood

23 Tour amenity
27 Sicilian mount
28 Copy room 

purchase

29 Sign of spring
32 Homing pigeon, 

e.g.

37 Pioneer in 

canned soft 
drinks

40 Pool toy
41 Newlyweds’ 

adventure, 
maybe

45 Emotional poem
46 Cat’s back shape, 

at times

47 Wanders (about)
51 Happy ending to 

a kidnap saga

55 Gambling spot
58 Tot’s little piggy
59 USDA section: 

Abbr.

60 Drama Desk 

Award cousins

61 Schoolyard dare 

intensifier ... and 
a hint to the five 
other longest 
answers

64 Starbucks 

offering

65 Rubik’s __
66 Trig function
67 Trick alternative
68 Hawkish god
69 Gives a bit

DOWN

1 Face
2 Barely manage
3 Keep from 

escaping

4 Org. using wands

5 Greek salad 

toppings

6 Tchotchke stand
7 It’s big at the 

Golden Arches

8 “That’s a big __”
9 Spring scent

10 “Rolling in the 

Deep” singer

11 Barclays Center 

hoopsters

12 Bonkers
13 Those, in Taxco
18 Start of many 

Grisham titles

22 Chain in the 

Bahamas

24 Workshop 

grooves

25 Hi-__ audio
26 Dye holder
29 Bit of eBay input
30 It might be 

bookmarked

31 ’50s pres. 

monogram

33 Yolanda’s “Yay!”
34 Hawaiian 

thanks

35 Trick
36 MLB Hall of 

Famer Wade

37 Pi follower
38 Fish with chips
39 Signal to enter

42 Ocean State sch.
43 __-1701: 

Starship 
Enterprise 
markings

44 London 

Underground

48 Park near Bar 

Harbor

49 Manatee cousin
50 Suit fabrics
51 Michelangelo 

work in St. 
Peter’s

52 Start
53 Bedroom closet 

hangers

54 Sushi bar fare
55 Wild West 

weapon

56 It’s often walked 

into in jokes

57 Browsing 

target

61 Reagan Airport 

code

62 Word for us
63 Soft opening?

puzzle by sudokusnydictation.com

SUDOKU

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enough 2 
know ur 
responsibilities 
but still ignor-
ing them.”

“NOTHING 
MATTERS

(except 
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