We all share guilt for failure to oppose wrongdoing
(09/18/02 4:00am)
I disagree with some of the fundamentals of Nick Christie's column. First, to contend that because terrible things happened in a place, that society should forevermore live in the shame and shadow of those events is to disallow for healing. Would we want all of Spain today to still be atoning for the Inquisition? Should people from the South replace their "Southern by the grace of God" bumper stickers with decals reading "Ashamed to be born into a society that did terrible things." And if so, shouldn't every member of the human race bear such an insignia, not just the South?