A southern newspaper publicly apologized for its historical role in the lie.

Evidence

On the day the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum first opened its doors, the editorial board of the Montgomery Advertiser, a newspaper founded in 1829 as The Planter’s Gazette, published an op-ed entitled “Our Shame: The Sins of Our Past Laid Bare for All to See.” The op-ed was a stunning mea culpa rarely seen in this country and especially in the South. The board apologized for the newspaper’s “shameful place in the history of these dastardly, murderous deeds,” acknowledged its role in perpetuating the lie that dehumanized African Americans, and pushed back against some of its readers who “wish we would leave the past in the past.” — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 590

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s ‘failed reckoning’ thesis — the apology is a ‘first step’ that must be joined by policy remedy, exactly the after times pattern of acknowledgment without transformation.