It happened again just yesterday, and I wanted to make something clear.

Yes, I have processed my anger about slavery to the point that I don’t think the people who practiced it in America had some innate moral failing. They lived in a context in which things we now see as terrible were normalized. That’s what human beings do when they think they need something.

I measure them against the average behavior of people in their context.  Rather than hate them, I praise those with the moral clari...