Our history is real and must be faced. These stories are not from another time, they are family memories still held by people today. 66 years ago is recent. And this isn’t even touching on the modern day lynchings.
“I don’t think we can afford to continue pretending that there aren’t these really troubling chapters in our history,” Stevenson said. “I think we’ve got to deal with it.”
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