Historical erasure blocks present-day accountability for slavery’s legacy

Evidence

At the same time, this history has been too easily forgotten, and its erasure is symbolic of our failure to talk about our painful past, whether out of shame or ignorance. The result is that we cannot fully come to grips with its wider impact in the present moment. The remnants of slavery and white supremacy remain with us today, as does Margaret Barber’s legacy. Our failure to hold ourselves accountable for it has not lessened the severity of the impact. A debt is owed to black Americans. When will it be repaid? — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 467

Categorization

• XREF: Directly instances the hidden-history-to-harm causal chain that the reader must defend as a legal brief.