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When Good People Get Caught Up in Racial Cleansing
It is the original sin of America. 240 years later the issue of race still animates a significant portion of political and social discourse in this country.
A nation founded on the idea of all men being created equal, has at its corresponding co-founding principle slavery, racial violence and inequality.
The symbols, even today, are everywhere; Birmingham, Selma, Ferguson and even Los Angeles. They’ve all become whistle stops on the road to more violence and inequality. Add to this Forsyth County Georgia in 1912.
This is where Guggenheim and NEA Fellow Patrick Phillips takes us in his Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America.
My conversation with Patrick Phillips:
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By Jeff Schechtman
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It is the original sin of America. 240 years later the issue of race still animates a significant portion of political and social discourse in this country.
A nation founded on the idea of all men being created equal, has at its corresponding co-founding principle slavery, racial violence and inequality.
The symbols, even today, are everywhere; Birmingham, Selma, Ferguson and even Los Angeles. They’ve all become whistle stops on the road to more violence and inequality. Add to this Forsyth County Georgia in 1912.
This is where Guggenheim and NEA Fellow Patrick Phillips takes us in his Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America.
My conversation with Patrick Phillips:
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