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What inspires you from WFSU Public Media? Here's this week's Voices That Inspire. My name is Ron Sacks. I'm a native Floridian from Miami who adopted Tallahassee as my hometown in 1990. I'm a career communicator, a former journalist. The Miami Herald, former broadcast producer and commentator. I've worked for two Florida governors and when I left Governor Childs in 1996 to start this company, Ron Sacks Communications became Sacks Media Group and now we're just Sacks Media. We are an integrated marketing and communications firm. I think we've learned a lot of good things during this difficult period. We're missing things that we used to define as the quality of life. It was just the fun stuff that was the icing on the cake, if you will. I think during this difficult time, the icing's been pulled away and we've taken an honest look at the cake of the things that really always have mattered. Family, faith, friends. We've had the twin peaks of two big crises that started last year. The modern revelations of institutional racism and the George Floyd murder has proved to all of us that these issues have to be addressed. We passed the Civil Rights Act in 1964 but there's still an inequity and inequality and unless we're black, we really don't know about it except for others teaching us about it. But the third tower of crisis is there's never been a more divided political time in our lives. I think all of us have a responsibility to try and nurture a more civil tone in how we interact. We ought to be able to have a disagreement on an honest basis but not the enemies over it. I'm Ron Sacks, founder and CEO of Sacks Media Group and an adopted 31 year hometown resident of Tallahassee, Leon County, the best community, to live, work, study, play or visit in all of Florida. You're listening to voices that inspire.