The unspoken secrets fill the air. The evidence is all around in plain view. You may be a Black, White, Native American, or ‘Mixed Race’ person with the same last name, same county or state of birth, and maybe even the same physical features. What does a White person do, think and feel once he or she knows the truth about ancestors who owned human beings? What deep emotions arise when a Person of Color meets a White person who once enslaved a relative? Do you politely nod, and move on, or decide to DO SOMETHING and open the lid on parts of our painful USA history? Then what? Dr. Martin Lut
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