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Readers Write: Fort Snelling's history, the homeownership gap


Readers Write: Fort Snelling s history, the homeownership gap
Contradictions are inherent to history. 
July 2, 2021 5:30pm
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Katherine Kersten objects to a new narrative about Fort Snelling in her June 25 counterpoint Activists commandeer historical society : The fort is being reframed as a concentration camp, a place of genocide and a site of conscience. In the process, its rich, 200-year military legacy is becoming a footnote, a source not of pride but of shame to present-day citizens.
But history is replete with differing perspectives and contradictions.
Thomas Jefferson wrote perhaps the most revered words our history teaches: all men are created equal. ....

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Panel says faith community must lead slavery reparations


Panel says faith community must lead slavery reparations
LUIS ANDRES HENAO, Associated Press
May 20, 2021
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This Sunday, July 10, 2016 photo shows the First Baptist Church, left, the First Baptist Church of Christ, center, and Saint Joseph s Catholic Church in Macon, Ga. About 170 years ago, the two Baptist churches were one congregation, albeit a church of masters and slaves. Then the fight over abolition and slavery started tearing badly at religious groups and moving the country toward Civil War. The Macon church, like many others at the time, decided it was time to separate by race.Branden Camp/AP
The faith community should guide the way on reparations for America’s history of slavery and racial discrimination and help the nation’s process of reconciliation and healing, religious leaders said during a panel held to discuss the issue. ....

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