Ideas and Issues

Why are Montgomery Civil Rights Memorials Private? July 19, 2021 New Orleans and Montgomery           Driving back from north Georgia to New Orleans, my son and I had left early enough that we decided to make another midday detour through downtown Montgomery to at least see the Maya Lin designed Civil Rights Memorial with inscriptions of …

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Past Time to Remember Slavery

Ideas and Issues

New Orleans   The scars of slavery haven’t healed.  Evidence abounds in the open wounds of blatant racism and deep-seeded, systemic discrimination towards African-Americans which manifests itself from top to bottom in our political, financial, and cultural experiences in the country that date from slavery until today, and, sadly, tomorrow.  The existence of slavery and its …

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