A Racial Reconciliation, 160 Years Later
On the 160th anniversary of one of the worst Supreme Court Decisions, something beautiful and miraculous happened.
Last week, March 6th, marked the 160th anniversary of the Supreme Court's infamous Dred Scott decision. Dred Scott v. Sanford, along with Plessy v. Ferguson (which enshrined the principle of "separate but equal") and Roe v. Wade, form a kind of unholy trinity of Supreme Court rulings which legally declared entire classes of people non-persons.
Yet this infamous decision recently became the occasion for a remarkable act of grace.
