The article's phrasing of "until the nation confronts and acknowledges this history" is accurate. I grew up in the Mississippi Delta. Practically no one knows

The article's phrasing of "until the nation confronts and acknowledges this history" is accurate. I grew up in the Mississippi Delta. Practically no one knows about these massacres. People think the sum total of racial violence after the war is what they've seen in the media: some civil rights protests, and a couple of lynchings by the KKK. Acknowledging a thing, and then rejecting its significance is called lip-service. In America, we give a lot of lip-service to history, but we don't really accept it, or confront it.