In the biographical documentary Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am, Toni Morrison tells a story from when she was four or five years old. She was just learning to read and write. She and her older sister were playing with chalk in front of their house. They copied a word they saw written somewhere down … Continue reading That Word
Racism
The Lies We’re Told
Lincoln freed the slaves. How many times were we taught that in school? I can’t count. Can you? Except he didn’t. Slavery didn’t effectively end in this country until 1942.