(cont'd from yesterday's post)
How should the horrible history of slavery in our country be addressed? First, with true facts about what happened, plus the effects of them. Then what?
Ndona's counsel is to tell the truth, but not to fixate on the history and the blame. To make today's reality better, as good as we want it to be, we have to re-focus:
"Hard times, slavery, segregation, in spite of all of this, we're still here. We have to talk about the bad, but we have to talk about the good! We have to say, this is what happened, this is the result. If it's a negative result, what are we going to do to turn that around? We're not going to continue to dwell on "you did this, you did this" . . (from yesterday's video)
Bitter hopelessness is not the right path, though some choose it. Ndona has it right.
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