If one fine day, you hear descendants of slaves discussing the horrific slave trade their fathers endured, do not interrupt them as they tell the atrocious tale of how men were once sold as commodity.
If your own fathers happen to have been slave masters, you will feel the need to excuse, dismiss, reduce or maybe even justify; repress that need. Alternatively, if your fathers were honorable men, who could have BUT did not, participate in the abhorrent act, rest in the heroism of your fathers. Dear reader, history is not one of those lovers’ quarrel that has three sides: your side, their side, the truth. Events that mark history are recorded with precision and diligence.
Fairness requires that one cannot be judged for their fathers’ crimes, but hear me and hear me well: to utterly deny your fathers’ crimes, based on nothing but sentiments of guilt and shame, is to be complicit! Ultimately, this is not about any one individual; this is about men who become beasts and teach their infants hate before they can talk.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
In Truth Always,
-Liv
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