Opinion by Danté Stewart: The history of Black people is also the history of Black parents refusing to allow the world to erase our stories.
where Black mothers were separated from their daughters, where Black fathers were separated from their sons. A place where the haunting of American history is woven within the cracks of the concrete and in every steel rail that carried Black people to be trafficked. “Racial subordination was codified and enforced by violence,” the site of the museum reads — right there, where we were standing.As noted, I am no stranger to these sorts of spaces.
We saw heads of the formerly enslaved, sculpted with reverence. We heard voices telling the stories of children who began their lives under the safe covering of a parent, only to be robbed of that peace. We saw scenes brought to life by a painter’s heart and hand, displaying the many iterations of Blackness and its power.
As we walked, my 4-year-old son, Asa, kept asking, “Daddy, what’s this?” I did my best to explain. “That’s where we come from,” I said, or “that’s what happens when people are mean.
I stood still. I hugged my son. I hugged my wife. For five minutes, my wife and I were silent. We smiled. I closed my eyes, took a long, deep breath, wanting to inhale whatever spirit was in the room.
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