The Past IS Our Present

A proud Nonnie and her great grandchildren

“You people need to stop living in the past,” a tweet-er posted in response to a recent Black Lives Matter protest.

“I’m not responsible for what my great grandfather did to Negroes back then. You’d still be living in Africa without us.”

Well, no, we wouldn’t because we –as in those Americans of African heritage living in America — wouldn’t be here at all. Sadly, I think there is a failure to…