Early 2021 marked a year into a global pandemic and nine months since the first Black Lives Matter protests erupted in communities across the country, including in Door County, following the murder of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin. In April 2021, Chauvin became the first white Minnesota police officer to be convicted of murdering a Black person.Set against that backdrop, the Door County Board of Supervisors adopted its Vision of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion resolution in March 2021. Racism as a public-health crisis drove that resolution’s birth, but the final document acknowledged the many ways in which equity and inclusion are not achieved in society, including age, disability, gender, gender identity and expression, nationality, ethnicity, parental status, race, religion, socioeconomic status and sexual orientation....
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