I'm reposting this piece by a favourite voice of mine, Clint Smith. If you have not read this or his book 'How the Word Is Passed', I implore you to do so.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/12/holocaust-remembrance-lessons-america/671893/

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“Our past was slavery. We cannot recur to it with any sense of complacency or composure. The history of it is as a record of stripes, a revelation of agony. It is written in characters of blood.” (Frederick Douglass) - Periphery of Memory - MyNotes: How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith

https://www.mguhlin.org/2021/09/periphery-of-memory-mynotes-word-word.html @bookstodon #HowTheWordIsPassed #WhiteSupremacy #History #Slavery