Extended Interview: Bryan Stevenson Reflects On America’s Painful Past | NBC Nightly News

[@felishapittman2778]

I've visited this amazing place today. Words can't express the emotions that I felt reading as many names from my state alone...its one thing to know...but it's another to see it. #gamechanger

[@dbigtime10bt]

I can only imagine !

[@bookwormsurfer]

Agree. Best thing I ever did, taking my two white sons. They were utterly effected, as was I. Everyone in this country needs to come here.

[@Jvoid-l8g]

I really want to go there but I live in the UK maybe one day.

[@charleswilliams8248]

I must see this! What a painful 😖 place, but also full of purpose! Awesome.

[@J10559]

Here after watching Just Mercy the movie....will visit there one day soon cuz I must asa an Asian American who lives in this country to know its true history .

[@tangelahenderson2198]

Soooooooo POWERFUL!!!!!!!!

[@amapparatistkwabena]

Brother Bryan is an amazing man; Brother Lester is so amazing that he allows him to speak with as little interruption as possible. The cameraman-um, that’s something else...😅

[@yesgregyes1416]

I know Emmett Till. I know Trayvon Martin. I know there's a direct line between them. But I cannot name a single lynching victim from the 1800's. I'm going to Alabama. I need to have an uncomfortable conversation with myself. #EqualJusticeInitiative

[@cindyb4277]

YesGregYes we were just there. Quite overwhelmed by our ignorance.

[@amapparatistkwabena]

Yes, Greg, I agree! My family is from Alabama and I have never been to this place. I travel the world (I actually live in Europe now) but have never taken the initiative to find out that this place exists. I am ashamed of myself... especially because I visit Alabama every two years-and I actually earned a Master’s in African Studies from the University of Basel. I will visit America this summer and I am making a point to visit this amazing place. It’s actually a beautiful memorial for such an unspeakable period of time in our history.

[@tijan8948]

Also the 1900s!

[@chevelleman88]

No you don’t.

[@theenagreen7253]

Feeling that guilt will provoke a sense of saying I'm sorry. As well as mr. Stevenson a sense of historical awareness that by admittance will eliminate guilt. This in terms will help other cultures be more mindful before speaking and thinking and acting.

[@dbigtime10bt]

Well said.

[@chevelleman88]

I’m not sorry. Slavery is not the fault of Whites. Slavery still exists in Africa today.

[@ndabeatphotography5176]

Here after just watching the JUST MERCY trailer!

[@joevega5477]

There is HBO special Bryon Stevenson

[@joevega5477]

Bryan Stevenson

[@tangelahenderson2198]

Coolest 😎😍 YOU ARE HIGHLY FAVORED BY THE LORD Attorney Bryan Stevenson!!!!!

[@anniekosten3850]

@@tangelahenderson2198 I agree!! I have the greatest respect and admiration for this man and the work he has tirelessly done.

[@anniekosten3850]

I loved the movie Just Mercy, but loved the book even more. I got the CD version of it. Bryan Stevenson narrates the audio version and it is so powerful.

[@onemanwreckincrew]

Bryan is one of the pre-eminent Stonecatchers of this century. God Bless Him.

[@victorevans6845]

And black people are still soldiers who are never defeated. Thank you for our those before us they were so brave. Look at us now we don't know who we are.

[@robertdim1271]

President Bryan Stevenson!

[@chosenpeople5881]

gotta see this.

[@ibrahimba4556]

chosen people The point being?

[@estherphelps3606]

This is a excellent man

[@sandihunt]

Can someone at the museum point me in the right direction … I am attempting to have Grandpa Doc Bacon exonerated( For our family's name sake)…. they hung him in Virginia and he was innocent . I have several newspaper articles to prove it.

[@tiffany4628]

I'm so sorry your ancestors went through this horribly disgusting atrocity and pain. Have you contacted the museum yet? I'm sure they can help you and perhaps also have his name memorialized there.

[@politereminder6284]

Look up the equal justice initiative. All the best. 🙏

[@KevinJohnson-sd3vv]

I've got to get to this place this year 2022 !

[@cindyb4277]

Ashamed to see Minnesota lynched 3 men. It’s not just the South that is guilty. We were overwhelmed by all we learned when we visited.

[@chevelleman88]

How do you know the lynching wasn’t justified? The vast majority were.

[@cindyb4277]

@@chevelleman88 because I live in MN and know the details. You could too if you were really interested.

[@chevelleman88]

@@michellegoodridge3116 It is patently not terrorism. It’s merely a punishment for wrongdoing. Please, try harder. Words have real meanings and they don’t mean whatever you want them to mean.

[@VictoriaNakaraKizer]

I had no idea that this monument even existed. Glad I am now the wiser.

[@andidegante7928]

Let's not forget that most were sold as well

[@nagitokomeada3914]

Who else is watching this 4 school? >>>>>

[@politereminder6284]

Wow! Where do you go to school? I never learned about lynchings in school

[@andidegante7928]

May our Lord and savior rest there souls

[@richardclegg5853]

We are in such denial and ignorance of our own despicable history...

[@jaydawg1965]

You are so right

[@kipwalker3455]

Bryan should be our next Supreme Court Justice! Biden should appoint him to replace Breyer.

[@dcwashingtonpresident5938]

Acknowledge People

[@bridhonasution]

Thanks a lot Jesus Christ our Lord 🙏😭 without You we all are nothing in this life 🙏 You always send us some good people as Your Hand to defeat evil and injustice ❗ in God we trust, Amen

[@ronkatz4230]

Too bad there are so many people who focus on hate, anger and fear.

[@aminahshabazz8689]

There are no words! Let emotion take over! Black People of the diaspora need therapy and this memorial is proof of it! 😒

[@kamal171]

The bottom line is African American they don't like to talk about maybe in the future

[@politereminder6284]

Americans in general don't like to discuss this

[@rosalynw.otieno1994]

@@politereminder6284 even in your everyday life it’s very hard to face the wrongs that you have done. That’s why this nation avoids the mirror of its history so much.🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️

[@rylog74]

History is very sad when the bloodline draws us all as one GENESIS 1:27

[@LiyaZuluM]

Reminds me of the Political Executions exhibition at the Aparheid Museum.

[@chevelleman88]

South Africa was better off during apartheid.

[@jordanabeaulieu2530]

@@chevelleman88 I am glad you have a platform to make such an egregious remark. I can't believe that in 2021 someone can be such an ignoramus and so blatantly bigoted! You basically condone a system that legitimized racial segregation!

[@chevelleman88]

@@jordanabeaulieu2530 So many of us are wising up. It’s a beautiful thing.

[@thenubianspeaks4329]

This is especially relevant now when we are talking about "1Critical Race Theory" and we have people like Henry Louis Gates that try to equate American slavery with Slavery in African in order let Europeans off the hook, and want to focus on placing the weight of the slave trade on African people rather than Europeans. There is no instance of slavery in Africa that includes the horror of American slavery, like cutting off appendages, and private parts, and herding people like cattle on ships to urinate and defecate on themselves for thousand of miles and throwing millions overboard in a horrific act of genocide and fianally stripping people of their dignity and humanity by eradicating one cultrual identity. We have to challenge the narrative of people like Gates who have been given the green light of mainstream media for being the ultimate authority on the American Slave trade. He does an horrendous disservice by his compromisise and betrayals and serves the agenda of those who want to sanitize the horrors of American slavery to circumvent taking full responsibility.

[@tangelahenderson2198]

Thank you so much Pres Bryan Stevenson!!!!!! We were descendants of kidnappings.

[@nyteryder5067]

12 million is not true

[@stephdrake2521]

Lester said he feels relieved by stepping out of the museum. To me, that was not a good thing to say. Lester married a white woman and I’m not sure if he’s biracial so to him, that past is way behind him. When you marry white people you kinda normalize racism. It’s impossible for you to fight injustices and then have to go home and lay down with a member of its group. Thank you Mr. Stevenson for taking up the fight and helping out future generations to learn their history.

[@rosalynw.otieno1994]

Lester’s family is from the Caribbean. They’re also descendants of slaves as you may already know. I don’t think you should take personal shots at him just because his wife is White. He’s probably faced a fortune’s worth of discrimination, considering the business that he is in.

[@unwind1183]

20/20 black lives matter ((or Does it really) where is our reparations for African Americans have any Democrat spoke about that..

[@mylesgarcia4625]

Who designed this magnificent Memorial? Too bad it's in the deep South. Probably would draw more people if they placed in Washington, DC/

[@andreachung396]

Daunte ran :{

[@nathanvancesr2409]

2020-2025 or else!~