Things That Happened While Former Slaves Were Still Alive

How the Passage of Time Becomes a Racist Weapon

A Philco brand portable television set, 1952. | Image Credit: Everett Collection, Shutterstock

Content Warning: For posterity, the following article contains uncensored mention of a racist slur.

Of the multitude of excuses given in America’s compulsive need to deny and deflect from the realities of chattel slavery from centuries before the United States…