It is not the past: it is the future

Statue of Stephen Douglas at the entrance to the Illinois Capitol, United States Justin L. Fowler / AP

A few months ago, John Guess Jr., director emeritus of the Museum of African American Culture in Houston, made the decision to display a Confederate statue in that museum as part of a process of “healing” the wounds of slavery and racial hatred that they still remain open.

Guess responded to questions from the press with a sanitary mask that read "I can't breathe," the last words uttered by George Floyd, the African American whose murder by a white police officer on May 25, 2020 fueled protests in that country, but he did it to argue that d ...

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