PERSPECTIVES: “When the State Chooses Whom to Grieve, It Teaches Whose Humanity is Recognized”

Nekima Levy Armstrong is a Twin Cities-based lawyer and civil rights leader, writing in The Minnesota Star-Tribune: “To honor the truth, we cannot allow grief to blur memory into mythmaking. And right now, America is watching an aggressive effort to canonize Kirk — a man whose life’s work left scars on millions of people like me. To tell the truth about him is not to celebrate his death. It is to insist that facts matter more than falsehoods, even in mourning.”

 

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