Regardless of the expeditious rhetoric, the fact remains that the racial ills that America suffers from will never be healed until a complete confession of our sins is made.

On moral grounds alone, there is no one that can reasonably say that the antebellum practice of slave trading was not wrong in every sense of the word. Our problem lies in the miseducation of our citizenry since the tragedy of our civil war. Our pain remains because we refuse to admit the total injury.

The oft-repeated phrases of 'to the victor goes the spoils' and 'the victor writes the history' is relevant to our continued state of civil war.
If we are to properly heal this festering wound of racism, we must reveal every gash where the American psyche has been slashed.

Along with the antebellum practice of human bondage and Jim Crowe laws must be added the barbaric behavior of the northern generals in the southern states during and after the war, the cruel use of horrendous post-war Reconstruction and the hypocritical post-war attitude of the northern states in regard to the immigration of emancipated slaves.

We should scrutinize our racial history, correctly identifying the 'saints' and the 'sinners' and admit openly that there were no 'saints'. The only innocents were the Africans held in bondage.

Redemption cannot be had without the complete admission of sin.