About Dr. Stacey Patton
Dr. Stacey Patton is an award-winning journalist and author of “Spare The Kids: Why Whupping Children Won’t Save Black America” and the forthcoming “Strung Up: The Lynching of Black Children In Jim Crow America.” You can find her on Substack.
The discovery is being dressed up as an accident, softened into an artifact, and framed as a harmless “window into history” as if this were something distant, contained, and safely behind us.