Oceans Of Slumber’s Cammie Gilbert: “I Feel Like My History Is Broken, I Feel Like America Is Broken”

I am a black woman in America and I am the great, great granddaughter of slaves. Memories upheld only in photographs; as a little girl I would try to imagine what their lives were like. But as it goes, reality unravelled the mystery behind my childish imagination. Now when I see old photos in civil war documentaries, I see their faces. When I watch the grainy black and white footage depicting the Jim Crow era, I see their faces. When I watch the films of the marches inspired by Martin Luther King Jr., I see their faces. And now when I sign into social media and see protestors getting tear-gassed, I see their faces, only now mine is there too. I can no longer approach this subject without a multitude of emotions overtaking my resolve. I can no longer keep the angry tears from welling u...

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