tears

moment of reconciliation

This was a beautiful moment. 

1. Two white state troopers took down the flag, slowly, deliberately – showing deference to a long, broken past, acknowledging the need for reconciliation. 

2. They handed the flag over to a black state trooper, giving over the history and power.

It could have been anyone taking down the Confederate flag, but the imagery of the sons of former oppressors taking it down and handing the power over to a son of former victims is powerful. Reconciliation begins with acknowledging the problem and continues with surrendering.

sidenote: I use former oppressors and victims not to say that the white state troopers had family directly involved in oppression or to say that black people still do not experience oppression.