With the news about the #TulsaRaceMassacre, as well as #WatchmenHBO's depiction, re-sharing this @werehist piece of mine from 2015. "Our boasted civilization is but a thin veneer," & it's long past time we dug deep to recover these histories. @watchmenhttp://werehistory.org/tulsa-riots/
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But of course ultimately these aren't metaphors at all. Our landscape is covered w/the buried victims of our most horrific histories--& while memorializing them is quite literally the least we can do, it's a vital collective step nonetheless. See also
@WordsandGuitar's "Unearth."Prikaži ovu nit -
& see the efforts at the University of Virginia, led by
@UVADeanKvD among many others, to recover, memorialize, & learn from the cemetery for enslaved men and women on the university's grounds.https://uvamagazine.org/articles/unearthing_slavery_at_the_university_of_virginia …Prikaži ovu nit
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