New York Times
At least eight and perhaps as many as 150 people were killed in the 1923 assault by a White mob on the Black town of Rosewood, Fla.
‘The experiences of indigenous and Black people offer a lesson in the construction of institutional racism in the United States.’
‘Punishment secured by violence is now a cultural fixture and an economic structure that victimizes all citizens. ‘
For blacks marginalized by racism and whites wounded by economic isolation, being invisible is a problem. But as the party conventions and other recent events illustrate, being seen can create a different sort of injustice.
America must confront the past and present of racism. But it must also address the economic injustices driving the alienation that makes some citizens so resistant to the conversation about race.
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