Memory & Remembering

For the past couple of weeks, I've been sitting a lot on Saidiya Hartman and her complicated questions of memory and remembering as it applies to the Black body. She critically asks, "What is it that we choose to remember about the past and what is it do we will to forget?" I always get stuck when reconciling this question, especially as I consider the ruptured past/remembering of self that Black Americans were given post-slavery. And as we begin to read more into memory this week, I can't help but have this complicated understanding of it overall. Anyone else feel the same?