How We Remember Our Past Determines Our Future

Historical memory is far more than an academic exercise

Tim Wise
Momentum
Published in
6 min readJan 25, 2022

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Image, from 1963 March on Washington, by Rowland Scherman, Flickr, Archives Foundation. Creative Commons License 2.0

Imagine you were to seek out a therapist, perhaps to help you work through some childhood and adolescent traumas that continued to impact your life as an adult.

You wish to get to the bottom of your current damage by exploring your past, hopeful that with proper…

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Tim Wise
Momentum

Anti-racism educator and author of 9 books, including White Like Me and, most recently, Dispatches from the Race War (City Lights, December 2020)