Kara Walker, Narratives of a Negress
Just a few days ago the United States House of Representatives issued an apology for this country’s enslavement of black Americans. Thanks Uncle Sam for the verbal acknowledgment of wrong-doing, but questions of gravity persist. What if any impact will this apology have on the lives of black folk and society as a whole?
The proponent of the initiative Congressman Steve Cohen hopes the apology will spark a country-wide conversation examining what the “effects of slavery and Jim Crow have been.” I think it’s safe to say that black Americans want more along the lines of reconciliation and retribution. To put it plainly, where’s my 40 acres and a mule?
The US government isn’t granting land back to Native Americans and they surely aren’t going to tangibly right the wrongs committed by their white oppressor ancestors.
This country is too busy reaping the benefits.
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