I've been thinking about that slave owner redemption piece all day. Almost certainly embarrassed myself talking about it on work Slack, too.
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For me, the core of my reaction is twofold. 1) Alex Tizon, his beautiful writing, his Pullitzer, all compromised. Scrub him from history.
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Take anything he left, give it to the family of the woman whose life he stole to have it. Defile his grave.
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and then, of course, 2) But this should also be done to me and mine.
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It's not morally complicated, what the enslavers and oppressors owe the enslaved and oppressed. It's practically & politically complicated.
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