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Tag: truth & reconciliation

Time for a U.S. Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Posted on August 7, 2015August 26, 2022 by Michael Vavrus

     A fitting recognition for the first anniversary of the killing of an unarmed African American adolescent by a white Ferguson police officer would be the convening of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission.  It may be the time that we – the people and our  public officials – face the sordid history of the nation that has allowed the continuation of racial oppression in support of various forms of White nationalism.  The first step to radically change continuing forms of…

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