Okay. For Rewind Wednesday, we visit a story from South African apartheid, and related truth and reconciliation processes, to reflect on the cruelty of news cycles that don't give us the tools we need to think more seriously about justice.
What would it look like?
Do we have the means to achieve the ends we desire?
Or should we be looking for a sense of liberation somewhere else, while fighting the good fight in all our unjust systems, too?
#Justice #History #Humanism
https://open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/p/what-sort-of-justice-can-we-expect
@MLClark An American truth and reconciliation process may have been relevant fifteen years ago, after the blood orgy that was the War on Terror. Things have moved far past that now.
Serial's latest season is striking upon that very issue. It's set around Guantánamo Bay in the years *after* it was the site of so much prominent discourse - when the dregs of failed justice proceedings continue to play out in the lives of those still in its legal limbo, with no sense of any greater lessons learned and *very* little accountability.
Some windows for societal reckoning do indeed close, leaving untold stories and deep traumas in their wake.