In Amanda Beam’s News and Tribune column on Tuesday, she picked up right where she left off last week — and where she left off last week was very instructive, indeed.
Meanwhile, KZ apparently thinks the crisis has passed. This belief is mistaken. I recommend that he issue a statement taking ownership of SpaGate, apologize for his insensitivity, vow to be more vigilant in the future, and move on. He stands to lose nothing by masquerading as a human.
Otherwise, I’ll be compelled to spend the weeks from now through November 3 reminding him of it. I might just do that anyway.
When you are a writer, certain stories affect you in unforeseen ways. First and foremost, the goal of a columnist is to change readers’ minds, or at the very least educate the public about certain issues.
Once in a while, though, research into a subject transforms the opinion of the journalist instead. Learning about the realities of human trafficking has caused this kind of change in me.
If you had asked before I embarked down this journey what my views were on prostitution in America, I would have answered that as long as the sex workers weren’t being coerced or trafficked, then I had no interest in what women do in their own lives. That’s the libertarian in me.
Boy, was I wrong. Prostitution makes victims of its workers, many of who had been traumatized to begin with.
Mayoral paperwork filed, Zurschmiede suddenly becomes aware of human trafficking.
ON THE AVENUES: Got spa? Time for CM Zurschmiede to reel in the years.
Amanda Beam’s column about human trafficking and the sex trade, and Kevin Zurschmiede’s spa denial.
