Clint Smith, a staff writer at The Atlantic, discusses the shortcomings of America’s reckoning with its treatment of indigenous populations and enslaved peoples, and what should be done to address deeper questions of public memory.
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How should we memorialize those who were enslaved?
Clint Smith, a staff writer at The Atlantic, discusses the shortcomings of America’s reckoning with its treatment of indigenous populations and enslaved peoples, and what should be done to address deeper questions of public memory.
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The Right To Forget
This hour, we’ll explore the question of whether memorials may keep us from healing in the wake of tragedy with David Rieff, author of “In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies.”
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