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Justice Jackson Calls for Remembering History of Racism and Its Lessons
The United States has a Vivid history of racism and violence.
Supreme Court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has requested the United States to remember and teach the history of racism in the nation.
This statement came from the Supreme Court justice while she commemorated the deaths of four black victims.
Way back, a group of white supremacists carried out a bombing in a Birmingham church in Alabama. Four black girls died from the consequences.
Supreme court justice brown delivered this keynote address in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. Here the members of the Ku Klux Klan bombed the church 60 years back. This unfortunate incident took place on the 15th of September 1963.
Judge Jackson delivered her speech as a warning against ignorance and complacency.
She said in her speech, “I know that atrocities like the one we are memorializing today are difficult to remember and relive, but I also know that it is dangerous to forget them,”
Jackson was the first Black woman to serve on the nine-member court. In June, she completed her first full term.
She added, “Learning about our country’s history can be painful, but history is also our best teacher”.
“Our past is filled with too much violence, too much hatred, and too much prejudice, but can we really say that we are not confronting those same evils now? We have to own even the darkest parts of our past, understand them, and vow never to repeat them.”- Judge Jackson warned.
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