PESHTIGO, Wis. – This part of America – Wisconsin’s North Woods – is known for huge logging trucks cramming narrow highways, thick blankets of evergreens that stretch for miles and markers lining the roads’ bends, advertising opportunities to harvest your own maple syrup or to buy fresh-cut wood and deer corn.
But although this area of the state stretching from Michigan to the Twin Cities has been a place of recreation for generations of Midwesterners, it has also become known in recent years for something more troubling: incidents of prejudice toward racial minorities, some of them recent immigrants. Some here now wonder whether a recent slaying will turn out to be another example.
QUOTED: James Danky, faculty associate in Journalism and Mass Communication and Afro-American Studies.