Can America handle the truth on race?
By Eric Liu
Can America handle the truth on race - CNN.com
Updated 8:45 AM ET, Mon January 19, 2015
By Eric Liu
Can America handle the truth on race - CNN.com
Updated 8:45 AM ET, Mon January 19, 2015
(CNN)Truth and reconciliation.
As we mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day this year, it's worth asking: Can America handle either one?
When Nelson Mandela became president of South Africa after the end of apartheid he had two choices. He could have gone down a path of confrontation and retribution against the white Afrikaners who had ruled so oppressively. Or he could have skipped quickly past the history and reality of apartheid and pardoned all its perpetrators in the interests of maintaining order.
He did neither.
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http://www.nationalservice.gov/mlkday2015
As we mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day this year, it's worth asking: Can America handle either one?
When Nelson Mandela became president of South Africa after the end of apartheid he had two choices. He could have gone down a path of confrontation and retribution against the white Afrikaners who had ruled so oppressively. Or he could have skipped quickly past the history and reality of apartheid and pardoned all its perpetrators in the interests of maintaining order.
He did neither.
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http://www.nationalservice.gov/mlkday2015