America Is Putting Up Memorials for a Lynching Victim, While Minimizing Slavery

For Blacks across the United States, it’s been a long walk to freedom, paved with discrimination, injustice, domestic terrorism, and an unrelenting fight towards showcasing, “I, Too, Am America.”

That long freedom walk is ongoing. And the most perilous parts of the inhumane treatment of Black Americans—beginning with 400 years of slavery—are now getting a rebrand thanks to the culture war generals in the Republican Party.

Of course, this is a misguided approach. We can’t create a future of progress without taking lessons from our past—and slavery was America’s original sin.

Read more at The Daily Beast.