Genealogy
Living History in Black Annapolis
Lotte and I talk a lot about the transformative experience of inserting ancestors into your understanding and viewing of history. It is the foundation on which I was taught about race, politics, food, education, economics…everything.
Read MoreYou Owe Me What Was Always Mine
Repair means returning the slaveholding records your ancestors have passed down, family to family, generation by generation. It means uncovering and atoning for crimes committed long ago. The gaps in my genealogy are not the fault of my parents nor my elders; they are – in a multitude of ways – the fault of white people past and present.
Read MoreWhite Supremacy? It’s not them. It’s us.
Over the last few days I have heard so many “nice” white people, both liberal and conservative, lamenting the insurrection at the Capitol – yet drawing a line in the sand, saying “not me.”
Not so fast.
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