Titus wrote down all the details that Dr. Kim had shared. At the top of the page he wrote the phrase “Curse of Canaan.” He was sure that was a reference to the Curse of Ham in Genesis. A bit of Old Testament vitriol that multiple empires had used to justify subjugating various peoples and keeping them in chains. Titus could remember one social studies teacher who had said without a hint of compunction that Black people were cursed to be slaves by the word of God. When he’d gotten home from school that day and told his mother, he watched as a tornado brewed behind her eyes.
