With all this renewed talk about Reparations in the 2020 campaign.

[sheshe2]

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I thought I would post this for everyone to read. I wanted to post this in the African American Group. Sad that they, our African American Group, is gone but not forgotten by those that posted there. Sad that a progressive group, the Democrats largest voting group, was run off the board.

Stunning cruelty. Stunning look into the souls of those that allowed this and continue to do so on American soil.

The New Lynching Memorial and Legacy Museum Force Us to Bear Witness to Our Whole American Truth

On what was coincidentally Confederate Memorial Day, a day that saw Montgomery’s downtown-area sun-drenched streets eerily deserted, the 58-year-old civil rights attorney says it’s high time that the other half of the story be told. The Confederate propagandists have had their say via statues and memorials, history books and song, but those people brutalized, sold and killed in the name of white hegemony (and capital) must also be entered into the record of American history.

“We need to find ways to live in this country and talk about things we haven’t talked about,” Stevenson says. He acknowledges that a memorial to lynching victims may be uncomfortable for some, but that it’s not about retribution.

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But just as a defendant must elocute on his or her crimes before the court, we cannot reconcile our past and move forward as a country until we begin to acknowledge its basest barbarism inflicted on its citizens. Heavily influenced by Germany’s atonement after the Holocaust and South Africa’s truth-and-reconciliation endeavors after the fall of apartheid, Stevenson says that to “move past” slavery and lynchings, we must first understand it. Without that, there can be no justice.
The New Lynching Memorial and Legacy Museum Force Us to Bear Witness to Our Whole American Truth.

This.

Sculpture at Lynching Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama.


A short video of our cruelty and inhumanity. Their faces and bodies, their posture screams of the pain and suffering.

It is a FB video and don't know how to post it. Please watch. It is very short.


https://3chicspolitico.com/2019/03/22/sculpture-at-lynching-memorial-in-montgomery-alabama/

Haunting.

After walking down a dark corridor, you then encounter black-and-white holograms of slaves penned in small cells (the museum itself is on the site of a warehouse where livestock and enslaved people were kept before auction). When you approach the bars, the enslaved person inside begins to tell their story. There is one of a mother who keeps hearing her children’s voices; that of a man who tells of how his mother begged for him, then 6, to be bought with her (although she was kicked away from the white man buying her flesh, the two were eventually reunited); that of two small children, looking lost; that of women wailing spirituals.



https://www.theroot.com/the-new-lynching-memorial-and-museum-forces-us-to-bear-1825529717

Fact is some are for it and some are against. Another fact, it is not about writing a fugging check. It is about correcting a wrong. It is about admitting our crime against humanity.

[democratisphere]

1. No checks.

Absolutely righting wrongs.

[NurseJackie]

2. Thank you!

[sheshe2]

3. You are welcome, Nurse Jackie.

Sigh.

[Turbineguy]

4. I read this as

"Don't vote for Democrats! They'll give your money away!" To "those people"!

Vote for good republicans!

[sheshe2]

5. Seriously?

That is how you read my OP?

Don't vote for Democrats? For real? Reparations is a joke? Slavery is a joke?

I think you need to reread it.

[rampartc]

6. certainly not a joke

but reparations is a losing issue with many descendants of union casualties and post civil war immigrants.

i'm not saying that some form of reparations is impossible, but that the issue must be approached carefully to avoid overwhelming repub majorities in trump's landslide second term.

[Historic NY]

7. AA Group is under Race & Ethnicity...

They really need to dump a bunch of stuff to free up space really we still have a Lincoln Chaffee group.

[akraven]

8. This monument, sheshe2 - it will rip my heart out.

Montgomery was pretty much the "heart of the heart of Dixie". My daughter lives in Alabaster and sends photos as when new stuff comes up. I've also toured, in person, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham and the whole beautiful downtown square commemorative. The Civil Rights Institute is awe-inspiring. The Legacy Museum (Montgomery) is well worth the drive as is anywhere you go in Selma.

And I wrote a check. So I'm crying again. Hugs, girlfriend!

https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g30375-i636-k11623014-Trip_Report_Civil_Rights_history_tour-Birmingham_Alabama.html

[brer cat]

9. K&R

[DonViejo]

10. Locking...

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