Historians Against Slaverys valuable digest of links to essays connecting our nations past to the events of 2014 includes this excerpt from author Anne Farrows recent op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer: If, as a country, we truly understood the extraordinary human catastrophe we created when we became economically dependent on the oppression of black people, if we took this in all its terrible dimensions into our hearts and then our history, we would not be scratching our heads over Ferguson. We would understand exactly why the legacy of enslavement is raging through our cities and begin to do something about it.
Posted on: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 02:36:13 +0000
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