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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s a reason I chose VA as opposed to DC or MD when moving to this area from Arkansas. I felt as if I would feel least home sick  and would be able to retain a bit of my culture from my hometown to my second home here. We need to look ahead, not backwards. [/quote]

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So your nostalgia outweighs the insult and indignities felt by so many, particularly black people, when we see these street names and statues?  My DH’s mother knows a story of a great+ grandmother who had to watch her mother get sold on an auction block.  My great+ grandfather escaped slavery, with his brother who went back to rescue someone else, never to be seen again. I was incredibly close with my great grandmother who was raised by former slaves.  It was not that long ago and it still hurts and is still raw.  Further educate yourselves.  Understand the Middle Passage. Read the Slave Narratives.  Encourage knowledge though correct (and not always comfortable) history education, museums, articles, etc. [/quote]

Thank you for sharing your family’s stories — that emphasize just how recent and, yes, how raw, these horrors are.  It still shocks me when I think that as a child, I realize that for my grandparents and even for my Mom, many of the older people of their own childhoods would have been the children of slaves, and some would have been enslaved themselves.  It’s chilling how many people celebrate brutality as nostalgia. [/quote]

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