The USA, will have a memorial, in the face of racial and inhuman abuses. The Equal Justice Initiative, a legal rights organization based in Montgomery, Alabama, will unveil a bill last year to make it happen.

It plans to create a museum called “From Enslavement to Mass Imprisonment” at its 11,000 square foot headquarters in April 2017. Located in a former slave warehouse, the museum targets the nation’s racial history from the days of Slavery to mass incarceration.

“Our goal is not to be divisive,” said Bryan Stevenson, director of the Equality Justice Initiative, “Our goal is just to get people to confront the truth of our past with more courage.

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With funding from the Ford Foundation and Google, Stevenson raised about 40% of the $20 million needed for the museum and memorial.

In 2013, Stevenson’s group detailed in Montgomery the city’s history as a slave market, last year the group released a report called “Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror.” The report documents 4,075 black lynchings that occurred in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia between 1877 and 1950.

The lynchings have led to the forced migration of millions of African Americans to the North, and there is still little effort to resolve what has happened.

In the style of carnival events, crowds of whites witnessed murders, tortures, mutilations of blacks, without any condemnation, “murders were executed with impunity,” according to reports.

“In America, we are not free. We are burdened by a history of racial inequality and injustice.

That commits us. That embarrasses us.” Stevenson said. “We have to create a new relationship with this story. We’ll have a beautiful place, which will tell a difficult but necessary story.

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Likely their will be push back from the White community on the memorial, but we must press on as a people and remember our history as we see fit. No one tells the Jews to never forget the horrific tragedy that happened to them, nor should they attempt to tell us.

#NeverForget

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