Status Updates From So Many Beginnings: A Littl...

…Yes, it is a welcome symbol, but that is because there is an alternative, and that is a truth they would do well to remember before asking one who has spent a single day enslaved to offer gratitude or trust.”

“Only the white in America can believe that those of us who’ve lived terrible injustices can or do make a distinction between the kind of white American who would put us in chains and the kind who would only stand idly by. It is too great a request that Blacks, emancipated or otherwise, look upon the Union flag and feel anything more than skeptical relief…

Oh, I fear the editor did her author no favors. I’m only 13% in and found an error last night, and then just now “making due” instead of the “making do” it should be. I’m still intrigued by the story, but we’ll see.

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