Quote of the day

"When the Civil War ended, there were no truth and reconciliation commissions formed to process memories, no Nuremberg Trials to enable reflection, no Great Emancipator to free the future from the past — only ghosts and the ravenous politics of memory. The need for national reckoning was quickly subordinated to the political imperative of reunification, and on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line, forgetting became more valuable than remembering." --Peter Birkenhead, from his article "Why the White South Is Still in Denial About Slavery" on Alternet. Link: http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/153598/why_the_white_south_is_still_in_denial_about_slavery/