I found the following reflection on the national lynching memorial interesting because it shows the power of subtraction to display a failure in redress. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, a professor of history at the Harvard Kennedy School who studies truth and reconciliation efforts from Belfast to Rwanda, believes that memorializing victims of structural racism is an … Continue reading Unclaimed U.S. Lynching Monuments Display Lack of Redress→
Important new findings confirm what was widely known yet rarely said out loud. Some scholars have already performed research that supports the link between Confederate memorials and racism. In their paper, Henderson and her co-authors note that many monuments were dedicated during the Jim Crow era, often on the grounds of prominent government buildings. The … Continue reading Correlation Between Lynchings and Confederate Monuments→
The Seth Meyers show does a pretty good job capturing the unapologetic racism of white supremacist candidates in America A crucial bit of analysis is missing, however. You might, like most rational people watching this video, wonder why someone saying “a public hanging, I’d be on the front row” (death penalty) suddenly can pivot to … Continue reading Google Exposed for Funding Pro-Slavery Candidates Calling for Lynchings→
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