Commentary: How Toni Morrison’s use of the prefix ‘re-’ captures our complicated racial history
On March 10, as part of a wave of similar moves by states across the country, the Florida legislature passed what supporters are calling the “Stop WOKE Act,” a bill limiting what workplaces and schools can teach about race and identity, with special emphasis on discussions that could cause others to feel shame over past actions of their race or sex.
But this widespread push to treat all truth-telling about America’s complicated racial history as “divisive” is in itself a cause of division. Such silencing impedes America’s recovery from that history; it denies the
