Kudos to Nelms’ authentic voice
Associate Editor Satya Nelms
To the Editor:
I write to express my admiration for Satya Nelms’ strong and realistic editorial in the November 13 edition of the Swarthmorean (“What Are We Celebrating?”).
It is written with honesty in an authentic voice that needs to be heard. It unveils the underlying and usually diluted telling of the history of Black people throughout American History. If this nation is to grow into the self its Constitution aspires to on its behalf, Truth must be confronted, and systemic, implicit racism, and complicity in it, must be eliminated.
After a few more decades of life in our nation as a Black American than the writer has yet endured, I do allow myself some hope in this next presidential administration — to be led by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris — and the energy they and the mightily diverse team they will assemble will bring forward to address the failings, deceptions, and other ills Satya Nelms well describes.
The work that must be done needs all of us ready to take it on in the spirit of the example so well displayed in this fine and truth telling piece. As Martin Luther King Jr. reminded us, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
Onward and upward!
Amen,
Maurice G. Eldridge
Swarthmore
