Never Stay Silent

A Quick Delivery - Reading B y David Kleinschuster Q NEWS   The early, blaze-orange sun splits between the towering buildings of High Point University on a cold, January morning. Choosing the quick way to class in hopes to make it on time results in you drenching your toes through your shoes and socks in the frosty dew covering the grass. It becomes easy to want to tuck your red capped ears down into the fur lining of your winter coat reminiscing over the warm sheets of the bed you left this morning.   Every frosty draft of wind causes your arm hairs to stand on end and chills send down your spine. The irritable thoughts of why you ever signed up for a 7:50 a.m. class pounds against the walls of your skull.   Weights of misery strain your legs making each step a drag as if you were plowing through snow.   The bounding footsteps behind you sound muffled through the thick layer of jacket wrapped around your ears.   A soothing voice reaches ou...

  B y David Kleinschuster Q News   2020. A year of chaos, conflict and controversy actively separates our nation, our communities and our families. Stares of death seep from wide pupils and furrowed brows towards once friends to now enemies in the streets and supermarket. What could cause such division and frustration in just under a year? Masks. There are several sides to take in your stance of the virus, but two major belief systems are fueling such controversy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Pro-maskers versus anti-maskers. Though there is only a percentage of Americans who truly are anti-maskers – those who refuse to wear one at all times and all circumstances – majority of people who are deemed as ‘anti-maskers’ will wear a mask in stores or in areas which mandate it (else they receive an invitation for removal) and keep their faces free at all times where it is not mandated. On the other side of the spectrum, there are those who wear masks in every aspe...