'Let’s start a new heritage' (NC)
Published 12:00 am Friday, July 31, 2015
By Mark Wineka
Stephen Pocklington said his heritage is what he starts making today and that he creates a new heritage “when I stand for something different” ...
Harrison said you can’t just talk about respect. Rather, it must be about mutual respect. When people bring up their heritage, they also must think about how that heritage “hurt people like me” ...
Mares, a white pastor, said the conversation about race has to open up space where everyone can own up to the dumb, ignorant stuff they’ve said and thought in their lifetimes and realize what it means to be in relationship. Only then can you have a dialogue that’s important ...
As for Salisbury’s Confederate monument, the discussion of which was one of the things leading to the forum, David Post said it can be changed, just as the Statue of Liberty was changed long ago ...
http://www.salisburypost.com/2015/07/31/lets-start-a-new-heritage-forum-aims-to-be-first-step-in-bridging-racial-divide/
