The Inheritance of Days
History does not lie down to sleep. It walks, with open eyes, among us.On the clock of men, the crime of slavery was erased a long time ago. The whips were put away, the slave quarters transformed into silent museums, and the slave ships are now merely shipwrecks in the distant memory of books. The law was signed, the ink dried. Therefore, it is true: no white person alive today is responsible for slavery. The weight of the steel is not on the shoulders of those born under the sun of recent freedom. No one, this morning, can be accused … Continue reading The Inheritance of Days