But he also wasn’t sure what he believed. He wanted to be open, and yet he was hesitant to let go of the story he thought he knew. The stories we think we know bring comfort; they add order and clarity to our experiences. It’s hard to let go of that. Learning and unlearning our history is a necessary part of decentering whiteness and widening the circle of inclusion. History is living and breathing in the present. It does not just explain the past, it sets the future. “What we choose to remember, memorialize, and preserve as a society determines how we understand our present and imagine our
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