History is not meant to comfort but to confront, and only through confrontation do we find lessons that lead us forward. Just as the Holocaust is remembered in all its brutality, America must reckon with the truth of chattel slavery, Jim Crow and racial terror. Anything less is historical erasure and rewriting facts to make the nation appear more palatable.
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