Bryan stevenson innocence project7/1/2023 "At this moment, people are saying, 'People like you are trying to make us feel ashamed of America.'" Pogue asked, "You might have heard this term 'critical race theory'?" "But only if we acknowledge that."Īnd that, he says, is the point of all of this: To confront our unpleasant history as a first step in healing. "But we can be more than a country of enslavers and lynchers and segregators and executioners," he said. We continue to imprison and incarcerate and punish people of color in ways that are not proportionate. We segregated and subjected Black people to racial hierarchy. We tortured and terrorized black people for a century. "Yes, and that's the irony! This country enslaved Black people for two-and-a-half centuries. "It's easier for Americans to memorialize something that was done to us, than it is to memorialize something we did to others." We believe in memorialization in this country." I listened all day to the coverage, it was powerful. "Each one represents a lynching that took place in America, where community members have gone to the lynching site and dug soil from that site," said Stevenson, who noted, "You know, we've just had the 20th anniversary of 9/11. One room contains jars of soil, with a name, place and date. The museum also depicts what arose after slavery was outlawed in 1865: a culture of degradation and violence toward Black people.
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