The search for truth
I participated on a panel Wednesday night at UNCG on the Greensboro Truth and Community Reconciliation Project.
The initiative seeks to revisit the Nov. 3, 1979 Klan/Nazi killings at Morningsdie Homes in a quest for what its organizers call "restorative justice." A panel of community members will review documents and hear testimony related to the event.
Their ultimate goal, they say, is not to assign blame but to allow healing.
The News & Record has supported the effort editorially, but the community seems either dramatically split, for and against it, or just plain indifferent. Some suspect a hidden agenda, or an attempt to rewrite history. Done right, though, this effort could help Greensboro learn and benefit from one of the darkest, most disturbing chapters in its history.
Five anti-Klan demonstrators died in an event preserved from start to finish on news footage shot by four different TV crews. No one ever was convicted in a court of law.
Some blame it all on "outsiders" who simply chose Greensboro as their battlefield. Others say both sides in the clash were despicable: Klansmen and Nazis, and Communist labor organizers. "What's a few dead communists?" someone once said to me.
But this is supposed to be America. No one has license here to kill people in cold blood, in broad daylight, because of their ideas.
Here is some of what I told the 18 people who attended:
1. I was impressed, even surprised, by the overflow turnout at the oath-taking ceremony at The Depot last June 12. They represented a gamut of ages, backgrounds and hues. Speeches by a pair of high school students were especially touching.
2. As the Truth and Reconciliaton process continues, will there be too much preaching to the choir? I continue to notice a lack of dissonant voices in these conversations. How can you succeed without them? What would it be like if Jim Melvin (who was mayor at the time) or a Chuck Forrester were here?
3. If you approach this initiative with a hidden agenda, loaded words or an unbalanced view, I told them, you will lose credibility. Be brutally honest to all concerned. Don’t flinch. Don’t suffocate the facts with prejudice.
4. The community reactions have been telling. Apathy I can understand. But the fervor with which some people oppose this process is harder for me to grasp. What are they so afraid of?
5. I wonder what it would mean to this city if it embraced the process and just let the chips fall where they may? After all, anything less than legitimate, defensible conclusions will wilt in the glare of scrutiny.
6. History is a good thing. It is a living thing. It teaches new lessons using old stories. When someone says of Nov. 3, 1979, "That's history," I like to respond, "Exactly; that's the whole point."
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