Necessary Information

It's difficult to deal with the reality of the cruelty of which we are capable. It's easy to understand our collective ability to forget what you might think would be, or should be, unforgettable. It's easy to assume someone, somewhere will remember, and fail to make ourselves the effort necessary in remembering.

We need to be horrified by articles like Thomas Laqueur's painful essay in the recent on-line London Review of Books, Lynched for Drinking from a White Man's Well, and we need to remember it.