Denial keeps these wounds from healing.

E. Martin
Hampton Roads, VA

So often people act as if slavery was some prehistoric event whose effects should have dissipated. In reality, 150 years have not passed since the end of the Civil War. In reality, slavery not only induced poverty in African Americans but wealth in whites; slave owner or not free labor will stimulate an economy. In reality, racism was legally acceptable for 100 years and still is socially for many.