A brand-new museum and memorial in Alabama, dedicated to shining a floodlight on America’s history of subjugating and terrorizing black people, has thrown down a gauntlet to the more than 800 counties where lynchings took place. The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening Thursday in Montgomery, has challenged each of those counties to claim a duplicate of its monument and bring it home for display. Counties should get in line to do so; in fact, about 30 already did before the museum opened. ” Four white men who were part of the lynching party were arrested, then quickly released. More than 800 counties across America now have that chance; they should seize it.

Source: Washington Post April 25, 2018 23:26 UTC