Slavery

[Rob Wick]

I don't know that I would see it as a question of feeling guilty. I read Taylor Branch's three-volume history of the Civil Rights movement and the life of Martin Luther King, and the one feeling I consistently came away with was how something like this can never happen again in a country that claims in its founding document that all men are created equal. I think it requires a constant understanding of what happened in the past, with the necessary praise for accomplishments made to overcome it, but I think as a society we are far from overcoming it completely, and unless we vigilantly remember what happened, we do a grave disservice to those who fought and the many who died.

Best
Rob