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Sam Codington is the pastor of West Haven Presbyterian Church USA in Rocky Mount, N.C.
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The Long Recovery
07-11-2017
Grappling With a Heritage of White Supremacy
If we have learned anything from the past several decades, healing from a 500-year heritage of slavery will take more than a generation or two. I am humbled when I think of this because I realize that the relentless, demonic agony inflicted for 500 years will not be undone or healed by a single generation. My body will have flitted through the breeze as dust many times over once this 500-year heritage has been unwound and restitched. Healing takes more than just time.