MONDAY MUSINGS ABOUT RIGHTING A WRONG...

 They say it's never too late to right a wrong... 

It wasn't long ago Natureman and I were discussing how Americans are quick to point a finger claiming 'other' peoples create atrocities, not us here in our country... 

Last year we learned of a secret more than one Polish community held regarding their involvement in helping Nazis in rounding up their Jews. Poland is known for its antisemitism and why the Germans chose Poland for its camps.

 Radziłów,  one of those small Polish towns has been harboring a secret for a long time.  History proves their involvement although their descendants feign otherwise. You see, one night the townspeople had rounded up the village's Jews into a barn,  barricaded it from the outside and set it afire. There was no way the village residents's could not have heard the screams throughout their village that night. 

Jewish tourists to Poland have also been horrified to learn of streets paved by the Nazis with Jewish tombstones... 

Fast forward to a segment on CBS Sunday Morning where 4 years ago Virginia State Legislator Stuart and his wife were appalled to discover their new farm estate had tombstones used as riprap for their Potomac water front. 

How could this happen?

Well, historians traced the tombstones to be from 60 miles away in our nation's capitol. The land where they had once stood was the Columbian Harmony Cemetery (1859),  an African-American cemetery at 9th Street NE and Rhode Island Avenue NE with some 37, 000 graves. 

Many important African Americans had been buried there but the land had been sold in 1960 and the developer had moved 100's if not thousands of headstones...

Now decades later with this recent tombstone discovery on the shoreline, Democratic Virginia Governor Northam and Republican Senator Stuart have joined forces to right the wrong, coming up with $5 million to fund the excavating, refurbishing and rehoming of the stones to the historic cemetery’s successor, National Harmony Memorial Park in Landover, Md., and create the Harmony Living Shoreline memorial in King George along the Potomac.

Gov. Northam stated “As we reckon with the many impacts of systemic racism, it’s important that we tell the full and true story of our shared past, and the indignities—and worse—that were inflicted on people of color. We must work to rectify old wrongs when we can. The Harmony Cemetery project is one example of that, and I am glad that we can be part of this important work.”

Now only should we not be claiming to be superior to others but we should all take responsibility to right a wrong...  It's never too late.