Still, there are some things that I believe should be forever inscribed into our memories so we don't make light of, or forget man's inhumanity to man. Like the Jewish Holocaust, I believe that the mark of slavery in the United States is indelible and cannot and should not be washed away, but should serve as a reminder of what can happen when economics become the arbiters of social behavior and sculptors of expedient theological thinking. I have not forgotten how blacks were mistreated in the South. I have known about it since I was a child and I have despised the South. The problem with that thinking is that everything changes.
People change and regions change.
To condemn an entire area because of where it is located is flawed thinking and similar to the kind of thinking that allowed slavery and white supremacy to exist in the first place which is something I don't want to be guilty of doing or associated with in any fashion. Also, it would be unfair to blame the South alone for slavery and its degrading effects when the North was, in a large part, just as guilty. Perhaps, I am not the only one who thinks like this or who has thought this way, but I believe it is long overdue for me to reevaluate my thoughts on this subject. However, before going any further I must dig into my past and retrace my thoughts over the years. My thinking was tied to stories my grandmothers' and my parents told me about traveling through the South and being at risk simply because they were black.