Ryder Spearmann
Aug 25, 2017 · 1 min read

Sure, well… I guess the point is, how can people stay angry about the pain of slavery unless we keep that pain alive somehow through art? Nobody alive has actually felt the pain of being a slave in the U.S., so we have to imagine that pain, then retransmit it to future generations, especially through art. The schools do a good job of this too, exposing children at very young ages.

My son was only six when the schools exposed him to it. From that day forward he and his black classmates would never see eachother the same again, knowing that pain affected the black children personally, profoundly, changing them. He learned to feel sorry for black people. In this way, he saw his black classmates as truly different from him, because at age six children are very compassionate. He (and his black classmates) learned he would never be the same as them, divided by pain.

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    Ryder Spearmann

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