Weve never, ever committed ourselves to a process of truth and reconciliation of our history. We didnt talk about the consequences of a myth that created slavery, and because of that, slavery didnt end. It evolved. We didnt think about what it meant to terrorize people between the end of Reconstruction and World War II, and then we have Jim Crow and segregation and we dominated and humiliated people for decades, without appreciating the harm done by that. And now were in an era where our failure to talk honestly about race, and the legacy of racial inequality, continues to haunt us. - Bryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative and author of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, which uses the story of Walter McMillian to illuminate profound injustices in our legal system.
Posted on: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 14:31:26 +0000
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