“We live by lies” in this country, and those lies can be seen and heard all around us. “We’re living in a region where the landscape is littered with the iconography of the Confederacy,” Bryan Stevenson said in True Justice. “When I look around and I see the iconography of the glory of enslavement and the era of lynching, I say we’re not in a very healthy place.” The drive along Highway 65 gave me a sense of that, and of the scale of the task before us. Progress, in this country, is always freighted with lies. “We have lived through avalanches of tokens and concessions but white power remains
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