Pitts on Freedom Rides 50 years later

Leonard Pitts nails it in his column about the 50 years after the Freedom Rides.

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One never encounters this wholesale dismissal of the past when one commemorates, say, the Kennedy inauguration or the Holocaust. That’s because those things makes us feel sorrow, nostalgia, resolve. As Ryan Price would testify, African-American history makes us feel . .  other things.

And if we find those things difficult to process, that’s understandable. But to respond to that difficulty by declaring this one strain of history off limits is to commit an act of plain moral cowardice.

Revisionist history does none of us any good. Let’s be honest about the past. Then and only then can we move forward.