Randall Kennedy on Addressing Past Wrongs
Randall Kennedy is a professor at Harvard Law
School, where he teaches courses on contracts, freedom of expression,
and the regulation of race relations. He is a member of the American
Law Institute and the Bar of the District of Columbia. Kennedy is also
an editorial board member of The Nation, Dissent, and The American Prospect. Kennedy is the author of Race, Crime, and the Law (1997), which won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize.
In this video clip from Facing History and Ourselves' 1997 Human Rights and Justice conference, "Collective Violence and Memory: Judgment, Reconciliation, Education," Kennedy talks about the wrong inherent in not facing past wrongdoings.
In this video clip from Facing History and Ourselves' 1997 Human Rights and Justice conference, "Collective Violence and Memory: Judgment, Reconciliation, Education," Kennedy talks about the wrong inherent in not facing past wrongdoings.
Transcript:
"Isn't the failure to fix and acknowledge
wrongs a current wrong? If you've done wrong that's in the past, and if
you're living, you have a chance to fix what you did wrong. If you
don't do that, it seems to me that is a separate and discreet harm that
you're visiting on people. You are now censurable for a second wrong
that you have done."
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Video length:
00 min 33 sec
Date filmed:
Apr 10 1997 
