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BEING ON THE WRONG SIDE of history carries consequences.
The first sound of a culture collapsing from its highest steeples starts as a whisper, a sigh. The rattle of windows in their frames. Nobody listens until it thunders, when its structure—all the massive weight held in air as by a magician’s trick depending on sleight of hand, misdirection of attention—collapses to its foundational sins.
we were in the middle of trying to pull apart a country to protect the wealth of slave owners.
