That redemption for me is a lot of things. I do need to look at the policies of this institution and see how it leaves certain people’s feelings and rights out of those policies,” Craig said. “One that says, wow, I do need to look at these laws and this legislation and see what’s wrong with it. “What I am going to be focusing on is when you see a memorial site like this, what effect does that have on someone? What emotional response does it create? How do we move from an emotional response to a real response?” Craig said. That sense of movement - not unlike the way someone moves through the memorial in Alabama - is important. “This memorial offers us a great way to think about this past, but also to think about this notion of justice that has to happen in this country,” Craig said.Ĭraig will be focusing on what redemption looks like, that movement toward recovery, and how the physical layout of the Memorial for Peace and Justice can affect a person. We are in this moment of trying to reconcile with our past and trying not to forget our past,” Craig said.Ĭraig said that without identifying past mistakes, you are doomed to repeat them. As a rhetorician I never ask what something is, I ask what it can be. “Restorative justice means, how do we move toward making what is supposed to be a democracy.
Craig’s talk on Friday will explore what restorative justice means to him by using this topic as a foreground to conversation of history and places.
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