Author and lawyer Bryan Stevenson described an American “narrative of racial difference” that was an enduring and dangerous myth plaguing much of its people’s collective consciousness: “The great evil of American slavery was not involuntary servitude and forced labor. To me, the great evil of slavery was the narrative of racial difference, the ideology of white supremacy that we created to make ourselves feel comfortable with enslaving people who are black. We’ve never addressed that legacy.”3 This narrative is more than just recognizing differences of race. The problem is that differences are
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