Here's an audio link from National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" show this morning. It details a case against a man who murdered two black nineteen-year-olds in Mississippi in 1964. The man was originally arrested in 2007 -- over thirty years after the murder -- because an elderly KKK (Ku Klux Klan) member came forward with testimony, but the case has been thrown out because a Louisiana court has ruled that the statute of limitations has expired.
Again, this artifact illustrates that "history" -- something we are sometimes tempted to think of as fixed and past -- is always connecting to our lives in the present. Or, as Faulkner argues in the quote above, history "isn't even past."
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But is there some way to get "past" the past? It seems to me that this country still struggles under the legacy of slavery and racism.
What do readers of this blog think about the issue of reparations? Given that reparations could take many forms, I think they could signify a way to allow this country to officially close a chapter of our history.
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