Mass forgetting of racial injustices - The history of and the present-day racial injustice faced by Black people and all people of color is largely missing from public memory and conversation. Despite being a persistent theme in American history, injustice and violence against Black people is missing from public memorials and iconography, from current-day policy decisions, from school curriculum, and from most public spaces. That history is also distorted by nostalgia for the Confederacy that silences the Black experience and has resulted in resistance to removing public monuments to Confederate leaders throughout the Deep South. Increasingly, aspects of the silenced Black experience - like the separation of children from their parents - are re-emerging in society and being misidentified as first-time occurrences. See EJI’s webpage on the Community Remembrance Project for more information.
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