Forgiving is not forgetting.

"Forgiving is not forgetting:  it's actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit back.  It's a second chance for a new beginning.  And the remembering part is particularly important.  Especially if you don't want to repeat what happened."  Desmond Tutu

The news is filled with stories of white people saying hurtful things about black people.  I’m thinking we have never really dealt with slavery.  Of course none of us were around for it.  For many of us, our ancestors weren’t around for it either.  But we lived in a country where human beings could be owned by other human beings.  There is pain from that war that was never completely remembered.